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Jacob Ten Eyck apprenticed with New York City master silversmith Charles LeRoux (1670-1732) for seven years beginning in 1719. After this training he returned to Albany to work with his father, Albany silversmith Koenraet Ten Eyck (1678-1753).
Brandywine bowls such as this paneled example are closely associated with Dutch customs. Dutch brandewijnskom held a mixture of brandy and raisins that would be eaten with a silver spoon as the bowl circulated from guest to guest at weddings, funerals and other cermonial occasions. An early family inventory lists this bowl as a punch bowl; later generations used it as a christening basin.
Paneled
Bowl
Jacob C. Ten Eyck (1705-1793)
Albany
Silver, c. 1730-50
AIHA Collection: Gift of Margaret Farrell Lynch (Mrs. George W. Lynch)
in memory of her mother, Margaret F. Brady Farrell (Mrs. James C.
Farrell)
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