MARK IHI, ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH HOLT INGRAHAM, PORTLAND, MAINE, CIRCA 1780

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A RARE SILVER COFFEE POT
MARK IHI, ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH HOLT INGRAHAM, PORTLAND, MAINE, CIRCA 1780
Inverted pear form, on gadrooned dome foot, with cast scroll spout and shell-form upper handle join, the gadrooned domed cover with a pineapple finial, the side bright-cut engraved with an oval cartouche between crossed garlands and enclosing script monogram, marked twice under base I.H.I in rectangle
12¾ in. high; 41 oz. 10 dwt. gross weight

Lot Essay

Joseph Holt Ingraham (1752-1841) is recorded as a silversmith who established himself in Portland, Maine by 1768. A salt cellar with similar IHI mark attributed to this maker is in the Hollis French collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated in Phillip M. Johnson, Catalogue of American Silver: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994, p. 93.

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