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PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK FAMILY
A SILVER FIVE-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
MARK OF JOHN SMITH, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, CIRCA 1820
Details
A SILVER FIVE-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
MARK OF JOHN SMITH, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, CIRCA 1820
comprising: a tea pot, a coffee pot, a cream pitcher, a covered sugar bowl and a waste bowl; each globular on circular foot with applied bands of running grapevine, the covers with stiff-leaf calyx and bud finials, marked on undersides, the sugar bowl apparently unmarked
the coffee pot 9 ½ in. (24.13 cm.) high; 129 oz. 14 dwt. (4,034 gr.) gross weight
MARK OF JOHN SMITH, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, CIRCA 1820
comprising: a tea pot, a coffee pot, a cream pitcher, a covered sugar bowl and a waste bowl; each globular on circular foot with applied bands of running grapevine, the covers with stiff-leaf calyx and bud finials, marked on undersides, the sugar bowl apparently unmarked
the coffee pot 9 ½ in. (24.13 cm.) high; 129 oz. 14 dwt. (4,034 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
Sold, Christie's, New York, 18-19 January 2001, lot 328