拍品 439
439
AN AMERICAN SILVER WATER PITCHER
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MYRNA AND BERNARD POSNER
AN AMERICAN SILVER WATER PITCHER

MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, CIRCA 1860

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AN AMERICAN SILVER WATER PITCHER
MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, CIRCA 1860
Of vase form, the body embossed and chased with sprays of flowers and foliage linked by entrelac bands, the lower body chased with water leaves, shaped rim applied with guilloche band, lobed loop handle topped with rams head and terminating in bi-furcated scrolls, marked on underside
12 ½ in. (32 cm.) high
47 oz. 8 dwt. (1,474 gr.)

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拍品专文


The chased floral decoration and rams head is nearly identical to the seven-piece tea and coffee service aquired by Mary Todd Lincoln in 1861, shortly after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln (See Charles H. Carpenter Jr., Gorham Silver 1831-1981, 1982, pp. 54-57).

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