MARK OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1765

Details

A SILVER COVERED SUGAR BOWL
MARK OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1765
Inverted pear form on molded circular foot, with reeded rim, the domed cover with flaring circular ring handle, the base and cover each engraved H+VP; marked under base and on cover
4½ in. high; 11 oz. 10 dwt.

Provenance

The monogram HVP is almost certainly that of [H]anna van Pelt of New York.

Literature

The Darling Foundation of New York State Early American Silversmiths and Silver, New York State Silversmiths, 1964, illus. p. 115

Lot Essay

This fine sugar bowl is apparently the mate to a teapot by the same maker, also engraved with monogram HVP, with a history in the family of [H]anna van Pelt of New York. The matching teapot was sold from the Collection of James H. Halpin, Christie's, New York, January 22, 1993, lot 121.

A nearly identical sugar bowl also by Samuel Johnson is in the collection of Historic Deerfield, illustrated in Flynt and Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, 1968, fig. 62, p. 90.

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