A SILVER PITCHER

MAKER'S MARK OF R. & W. WILSON, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1850

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A SILVER PITCHER
Maker's mark of R. & W. Wilson, Philadelphia, circa 1850
Tapering cylindrical, the body chased to simulate bark and applied with scrolling grapevines, a lizard and small bird, the vine handle surmounted by an eagle, the central cartouche engraved with monogram HTJ, marked under base
11in. high; 38oz. 10dwt.
Wilson, R. & W.

拍品專文

A pitcher of similar design is in the collection of the High Museum of Art, illustrated in Donald C. Pierce, Art and Enterprise: American Decorative Art, 1825-1917, The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection, 1999, pp. 76-77, no. 38. Another pitcher is in the collection of the State Museum of Pennsylvania.