MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, CIRCA 1885

A virtually identical tray with the same silver applications of a yak and plum blossoms was in the collection of Charles H. Carpenter Jr., sold Christie's, January 21, 1994, lot 15, and is now in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art, illustrated in Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940, 1994, p. 179, fig. 6.49.