An American Silver Six-paneled Brandywine Bowl, Peter Van Dyck, New York, circa 1720

of lobed circular form, each panel chased with a different flower rising from scrolls, engraved on side with contemporary block initials M*C, with beaded caryatid scroll handles, and raised on a circular foot with incised bands

handles later, a little wear to marks and slight wear to high spots, good condition
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Peter Van Dyck (baptised 1684-1750) was raised on Broad Street next door to Jacob Boelen, and was apprenticed to Bartholomew LeRoux in 1711.  He married LeRoux's daughter Rachel in 1711, though she died a year later following the birth of their daughter.  in 1715 he married Cornelia Van Varick, the wealthy widow of Barend de Klein.  Van Dyck was constable of the East ward in1708, and assessor in 1730.  He will proved in 1750 mentions eight children, and records his bequest of a silver vessel to each of his five living daughters.

Commonly referred to as brandewijnskom or brandywine bowls, the six-paneled bowls made in America during late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries are unique New York and Albany and derive stylistically from Dutch, English and Huguenot sources. In keeping with Dutch tradition the bowls were typically given on the occasion of a wedding, funeral or birth of a child where they would be filled with brandy and raisins and passed between guests who would draw liquor with a silver spoon. Approximately twenty known brandywine bowls exist today.