Details
A FIVE-PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**
MAKER'S MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, 1881-1883
Comprising: a coffee pot, teapot, covered sugar bowl, cream jug and waste bowl, in the Egyptian taste, each baluster, with foliage and geometric decorated band below rim, the scroll handle with ivory insulators and fluted thumb-piece, the tapering hinged cover with fluted bead finial, 1530, marked under bases
coffee pot 9¼in. high; gross weight 75oz. 10dwt. (5)
MAKER'S MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, 1881-1883
Comprising: a coffee pot, teapot, covered sugar bowl, cream jug and waste bowl, in the Egyptian taste, each baluster, with foliage and geometric decorated band below rim, the scroll handle with ivory insulators and fluted thumb-piece, the tapering hinged cover with fluted bead finial, 1530, marked under bases
coffee pot 9¼in. high; gross weight 75oz. 10dwt. (5)
Literature
The Sphinx and the Lotus: The Egyptian Movement in American Decorative Arts, 1865-1935, 1990, cat. no. 54.
Exhibited
The Hudson River Museum, "The Sphinx and the Lotus," February 4-April 29, 1990