MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, CIRCA 1885

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AN AMERICAN SILVER-MOUNTED PATINATED COPPER TRAY
MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, CIRCA 1885
Shaped circular, the copper field textured, with an applied silver yak with rider, and plum blossoms, and applied copper branch, the border everted and crimped, marked on the reverse, also marked Y59
9 in. (22.9 cm.)

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

A virtually identical tray with the same silver applications of a yak and plum blossoms was in the collection of Charles H. Carpenter Jr., sold Christie's, January 21, 1994, lot 15, and is now in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art, illustrated in Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940, 1994, p. 179, fig. 6.49.

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