A SILVER-MOUNTED COPPER TOBACCO JAR

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A SILVER-MOUNTED COPPER TOBACCO JAR
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH HEINRICH; RETAILER'S MARK OF J.C. GROGAN & CO., PITTSBURGH, CIRCA 1900

Barrel form, the spreading base and removable cover applied with wavy silver mounts, the sides applied with two silver bear's-head handles, the cover with silver ring finial, marked under base
7¾in. high

Lot Essay

Joesph Heinrich was a metalsmith with shops in New York and Paris. His best works employ American themes, such as the silver-mounted copper punch bowl at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, mounted with silver bears and Indian heads, illustrated in Charles Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940, 1994, fig.6.68, p.198.