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A SILVER FOUR-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
A SILVER FOUR-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE

MAKER'S MARK OF GEORGE W. RIGGS, BALTIMORE, 1815

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A SILVER FOUR-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
Maker's mark of George W. Riggs, Baltimore, 1815
Comprising coffee pot, teapot, covered sugar bowl and cream jug; each on rectangular stepped base, with die-rolled bands of gadrooning and diaperwork at foot, shoulder and rim, with wooden insulators,marked under bases, also marked with Baltimore assay marks of 1815
The teapot 9in. high; gross weight 94oz. 10dwt.
Riggs, George W. (4)

Lot Essay

A similar teapot and covered sugar bowl are pictured in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver, 1975, pp. 126-127, cat. entries 149-150. The Baltimore Museum of Art's teapot and sugar bowl do not have the Baltimore assay marks and presumably were made before 1814 when the hallmarking system was adopted in Maryland. George W. Riggs (1777-1864) worked circa 1805-1810 in Georgetown, D.C. before moving to Baltimore.