A SILVER TEAPOT STAND

MARK OF PAUL REVERE, JR., BOSTON, CIRCA 1785

Details

A SILVER TEAPOT STAND
MARK OF PAUL REVERE, JR., BOSTON, CIRCA 1785
Shaped oval, on four paw feet, with molded rim, the field with bright-cut engraved neo-classical decoration, the center later engraved with the monogram BF within a cartouche, marked on reverse (Kane mark B)
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) long; 4 oz. 10 dwt. (150 gr.)

Provenance

The Foster family of Boston, by descent to Dorothy Foster Stewart (b. 1894), grandmother of the present owner

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Lot Essay

The monogram BF is possibly that of Beatrice Foster, sister of Dorothy Foster Stewart.
A nearly identical teapot stand by Revere, dated 1787, is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (illus. Kathryn C. Buhler, American Silver, 1972, no. 381, p. 430-431).

This previously unrecorded teapot stand is one of only fourteen known examples by Revere.

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