AN AMERICAN COPPER AND SILVER EGG CODDLER

ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH HEINRICH, NEW YORK, 1900-1915

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AN AMERICAN COPPER AND SILVER EGG CODDLER
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH HEINRICH, NEW YORK, 1900-1915
The tripod stand with three cast figures of rabbits and scroll brackets supporting an egg-shaped dish, the domed cover with wood and silver-mounted finial, the interior fitted with a removable stand for four eggs, all set on a circular oak base with fixed burner, apparently unmarked, the base marked COPPER AND SILVER
The base 10 in. (25.4 cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

A chafing dish of the same design by Joseph Heinrich is in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art and is illustrated in Charles Venable, Silver in America 1840-1940, A Century of Splendor, 1994, fig. 9.3, p. 253. Another chafing dish sold in these Rooms, 18-19 January 2007, lot 234.

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