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A SILVER TEAPOT

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A SILVER TEAPOT
MAKER'S MARK OF ELIAS PELLETREAU, SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1765
Bullet-shaped, on molded spreading circular foot, the rim engraved with a band of foliate scrolls with lozenges and hatchwork at intervals, with fluted foliate scroll spout and wood handle, the hinged domed cover with bud finial engraved with flowerheads within trelliswork, engraved under base with initials EH, marked--9 3/4in. long
(gross weight 19 oz.)

拍品专文

A teapot by Pelletreau with similar engraved decoration on the shoulder and finial and a similar cast spout is in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (illustrated in Dean F. Failey, Long Island Is My Nation, 1976, fig. 245, p. 211).