The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords

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Lot 722
  • 722

An American silver teapot, Adrian Bancker, New York circa 1730

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Description

  • height 7in.
  • 17.8cm
of pear form with capped and faceted swan-neck spout, high domed cover with molded bands and baluster finial, engraved on base MRB, marked each side of handle AB in oval.

Catalogue Note

A similar teapot by Bancker but with a concave section above the lower body is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Puig et al. 1989 no. 189, p. 231).

Adrian Bancker (1703-1772) was the son of the mayor of Albany, and himself married in 1728/29 the daughter of a former governor of Curaçao.  He became a freeman in 1731.  He was a deacon in the Dutch Church, and from 1733 to 1766 was collector of the South Ward.  In 1766 he advertised as being on Bridge Street, near the Exchange.