A FINE FIVE-PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE

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A FINE FIVE-PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
MAKER'S MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, 1881

In the Persian taste; comprising coffee pot, teapot, sugar bowl and cover, cream jug and waste bowl; each repousse and chased with flowering fruit branches, the rim die-rolled with geometric decoration, with elephant's head handles with ivory insulators, the spouts chased with flutes and flowers, the hammered hinged domed covers with reeded rectangular finials, each engraved on base William and Clara Bryce from Mary Hemenway March 1st 1882, each marked, 1670--height of coffee pot 7 1/2in.
(93oz.) (5)

拍品专文

A tea service of identical design was sold in these Rooms, January 22, 1993, lot 170, and is now in the collection of the Henry Ford Museum.

During the 1930s, when orders for silver diminished significantly, Gorham employed its silversmiths by ordering reproductions of their own historical designs, which were kept for Gorham's corporate collection. This tea service design was selected for reproduction, and the 1930's example is now in the collection of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.

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