Lot Essay
Two similar waiters by Warner also decorated with snowflakes are illustrated in Jennifer F. Goldsborough, Maryland Silver, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975, figs. 125 and 134.
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A SILVER WAITER AND SILVER SUGAR BASKET
THE WAITER MAKER'S MARK OF A.E. WARNER, BALTIMORE, CIRCA 1830, THE SUGAR BASKET MAKER'S MARK OF NEWELL HARDING & CO., BOSTON, CIRCA 1830
The circular waiter raised on three beaded scroll feet, with reeded rim, the field engraved with snowflake decoration centering a crest within foliate fronds marked--7 1/8in. diam.; the sugar basket rectangular with canted corners, the similar spreading base engraved with a a border of foliate scrolls, the body with fluted corners, each side engraved with a vacant foliate scroll circular cartouche within foliate scroll and wrigglework bands, with overhead swing handle, engraved under base C.E.R. from E.D.W. 1865, marked--5 3/8in. long
(15 oz. 10 dwt.) (2)
THE WAITER MAKER'S MARK OF A.E. WARNER, BALTIMORE, CIRCA 1830, THE SUGAR BASKET MAKER'S MARK OF NEWELL HARDING & CO., BOSTON, CIRCA 1830
The circular waiter raised on three beaded scroll feet, with reeded rim, the field engraved with snowflake decoration centering a crest within foliate fronds marked--7 1/8in. diam.; the sugar basket rectangular with canted corners, the similar spreading base engraved with a a border of foliate scrolls, the body with fluted corners, each side engraved with a vacant foliate scroll circular cartouche within foliate scroll and wrigglework bands, with overhead swing handle, engraved under base C.E.R. from E.D.W. 1865, marked--5 3/8in. long
(15 oz. 10 dwt.) (2)