THOMAS HAMMERSLEY, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1765

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A SILVER TEAPOT
THOMAS HAMMERSLEY, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1765
Inverted-pear form, on circular pedestal foot, the domed cover with bud finial, the body engraved with a band of scrolls around the cover, and with a later coat-of-arms on one side, with part-fluted scroll-clad spout and wooden handle, marked twice under base
9¾ in. long; 19 oz. 10 dwt. gross weight

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 19 January 2007, lot 186.

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Lot Essay

A virtually identical teapot, with the same castings, is marked with Thomas Hammersley's usual mark, TH in a rectangle. The teapot, now in the collection of the Winterthur Museum, also has an engraved band at the shoulder similar to the one on this example. (See Ian M. G. Quimby, American Silver at Winterthur, 1995 p. 243, no. 207.)

The present teapot bears the mark TH in a shaped rectangle, undoubtedly an unrecorded mark of the same maker.

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