MARK OF THOMAS FLETCHER & SIDNEY GARDINER, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1825

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A SILVER BOTTLE STAND WITH GLASS BOTTLES
MARK OF THOMAS FLETCHER & SIDNEY GARDINER, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1825
In the Regency taste, square, on four paw feet, with shell and leaf border, the stand set with four bottle rings with oak leaf and acorn bands between winged calf supports, the central standard with fruit-clad ring handle, the stand fitted with four cut-glass bottles; together with four enamel bottle tickets marked brandy, rye, whiskey and bourbon, marked under base
12 in. (30 cm.) high; 69 oz. 10 dwt. (2,164 gr.) (9)

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Lot Essay

Fletcher & Gardiner's presentation vases for DeWitt Clinton and this cruet stand are the only pieces known to employ the firm's Z-shaped banner mark. The mark is illustrated in Donald L. Fennimore and Ann K. Wagner, Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808-1842, 2007, fig. 7a, illus. p. 267.

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