A RARE SILVER WATER PITCHER

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A RARE SILVER WATER PITCHER
MAKER'S MARK SAMUEL KIRK & SONS, BALTIMORE, 1824-1829

Baluster on spreading foot, with beaded borders and applied bands of trailing foliage, with leaf-clad scroll handle, marked under base, also with assay marks--10 3/8in. high
(27oz.)

Lot Essay

The Baltimore Assay office marks on this pitcher were used by assay master LeRoy Atkinson from 1824 to 1829. See Patrick M. Duggan, "Marks on Baltimore Silver 1814-1860, " Silver in Maryland, 1984, fig. 5, p. 29.