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A FOUR-PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE AND TRAY
MAKER'S MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND,
In the Aesthetic taste; the ovoid bodies elaborately repousse and chased with berried foliate vines on a matted ground below a fluted shoulder, the neck with flowerheads within concentric squares, the scroll spouts with bands of overlapping flowerheads and reeded flutes, the handles formed as elephant's heads with scrolling trunks, the head draped with a Persian-style cloth, the spot-hammered hinged cover surmounted by a fluted oblong finial, the oblong tray with similar foliate border below a bands of similar flowerheads and squares and stylized foliage, the handles formed of elephant heads holding aloft a bar with similar concentric square decoration, the field engraved with a monogram HRV, in fitted wood case, marked--height of coffeepot 7 7/8in. high
(gross weight 84 oz. 10 dwt.) (5)
MAKER'S MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND,
In the Aesthetic taste; the ovoid bodies elaborately repousse and chased with berried foliate vines on a matted ground below a fluted shoulder, the neck with flowerheads within concentric squares, the scroll spouts with bands of overlapping flowerheads and reeded flutes, the handles formed as elephant's heads with scrolling trunks, the head draped with a Persian-style cloth, the spot-hammered hinged cover surmounted by a fluted oblong finial, the oblong tray with similar foliate border below a bands of similar flowerheads and squares and stylized foliage, the handles formed of elephant heads holding aloft a bar with similar concentric square decoration, the field engraved with a monogram HRV, in fitted wood case, marked--height of coffeepot 7 7/8in. high
(gross weight 84 oz. 10 dwt.) (5)