A SILVER TWO HANDLED COVERED URN, executed by John Chandler Moore for Ball, Tompkins & Black, circa 1860, inverted ovoid with long slightly waisted neck, on circular pedestal base, all components chased and engraved with undulating bold fruited grapevine, twice centering shaped circular cartouche, the front engraved with inscription A TESTIMONIAL OF REGARD Wm. Van Deventer Esq. upon his retiring from business Jan 1 1860 from Henry B. Van Deventer, Peter L Van Deventer, Tho.s Stringer, L L L Allen J. Van Nostrand, with two rusticated fruited grapevine scroll handles, with applied grapes above stem and to rim and applied vine moldings, the conformingly decorated partly domed cover topped by rusticated vine loop handle--20in. (50.8cm.) high, 79.5oz.

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A SILVER TWO HANDLED COVERED URN, executed by John Chandler Moore for Ball, Tompkins & Black, circa 1860, inverted ovoid with long slightly waisted neck, on circular pedestal base, all components chased and engraved with undulating bold fruited grapevine, twice centering shaped circular cartouche, the front engraved with inscription A TESTIMONIAL OF REGARD Wm. Van Deventer Esq. upon his retiring from business Jan 1 1860 from Henry B. Van Deventer, Peter L Van Deventer, Tho.s Stringer, L L L Allen J. Van Nostrand, with two rusticated fruited grapevine scroll handles, with applied grapes above stem and to rim and applied vine moldings, the conformingly decorated partly domed cover topped by rusticated vine loop handle--20in. (50.8cm.) high, 79.5oz.

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Cf:Schwartz, Marvin D., Collectors' Guide to Antique American Silver, Robert Hale & Company, London, Redwood Burn Ltd., 1976. Mr. Schwartz states: "Moore's grapes are no less carefully executed than those in a still life of the period." See page 101, illustration no. 107, for a conforming creamer, 1850, made by Moore, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Mrs. F. R. Lefferts, 1969.

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