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PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
A SILVER COFFEE POT
MARK OF JOHN DAVID, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1785
Details
A SILVER COFFEE POT
MARK OF JOHN DAVID, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1785
Shaped pyriform, on a domed pedestal foot with gadrooned border, with a leaf-capped and scroll spout, and double-scroll wood handle, the double-domed cover with gadrooned border and rim, and a pineapple finial, the body engraved with the monogram JDE, marked under base twice
14¼ in. high; 41 oz. 10 dwt. gross weight
MARK OF JOHN DAVID, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1785
Shaped pyriform, on a domed pedestal foot with gadrooned border, with a leaf-capped and scroll spout, and double-scroll wood handle, the double-domed cover with gadrooned border and rim, and a pineapple finial, the body engraved with the monogram JDE, marked under base twice
14¼ in. high; 41 oz. 10 dwt. gross weight
Provenance
Jess Pavey, Birmingham, Michigan
Mr. and Mrs. James O. Keene Collection, sold Sotheby's, New York, 16 January 1997, lot 25
Stanley Paul Sax Collection, sold Sotheby's, New York, 16-17 January 1998, lot 87
Mr. and Mrs. James O. Keene Collection, sold Sotheby's, New York, 16 January 1997, lot 25
Stanley Paul Sax Collection, sold Sotheby's, New York, 16-17 January 1998, lot 87
Exhibited
This coffee pot may have been part of an exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts in October 1955.
Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford Museum, "Americana Midwest Collectors' Choice," October 14-November 27, 1960, catalogue no. 532
Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford Museum, "Americana Midwest Collectors' Choice," October 14-November 27, 1960, catalogue no. 532