AN AMERICAN SILVER GILT WATER PITCHER, maker's mark of Shreve & Co., baluster, on raised florally chased circular foot, two sides chased in low relief with Eighteenth Century shepherdess, a male, and another playing the pipes, the front engraved with monogram, all within chased and engraved foliate scrolls and flowers at intervals, with applied scrolling foliate and ruffled shell wavy rims, with matted acanthus capped scroll handle--12in. (30.4cm.) high, 38.5oz.