A NEO-CLASSIC PRESENTATION SILVER EWER AND PAIR OF GOBLETS, maker's mark of Gorham, circa 1865, the ewer #530, the goblets #360, the vase-shaped ewer on short circular foot, with applied wave border, the body with inscription, the cylindrical neck flat-chased with interlocking bellflowers and anthemion on matted ground, applied with Classic portrait medallions, the shaped flaring lipped part engraved with foliate band within matting and wrigglework, headed by paterae, the angular handle headed by a reclining diaphanously clad female--11½in. (29.2cm.) high; the goblets with bell-shaped bowl with conforming decoration and inscription--7¼in. (18.4cm.) high, 60oz.

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A NEO-CLASSIC PRESENTATION SILVER EWER AND PAIR OF GOBLETS, maker's mark of Gorham, circa 1865, the ewer #530, the goblets #360, the vase-shaped ewer on short circular foot, with applied wave border, the body with inscription, the cylindrical neck flat-chased with interlocking bellflowers and anthemion on matted ground, applied with Classic portrait medallions, the shaped flaring lipped part engraved with foliate band within matting and wrigglework, headed by paterae, the angular handle headed by a reclining diaphanously clad female--11½in. (29.2cm.) high; the goblets with bell-shaped bowl with conforming decoration and inscription--7¼in. (18.4cm.) high, 60oz.

Lot Essay

The inscription reads:
Jonathan Watson
From
His friends and members of the firm
Brewer Watson & Co.
1865
From Father to M. M. W.
(last line probably later inscribed)

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