AN AMERICAN SILVER COFFEE POT

POSSIBLY DELAWARE OR MARYLAND, CIRCA 1800

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AN AMERICAN SILVER COFFEE POT
POSSIBLY DELAWARE OR MARYLAND, CIRCA 1800
on spreading circular foot and shallow square plinth, the body with double incurved corners, hinged reel-form cover surmounted by a ball finial, one side engraved with foliate script monogram DSG, within a shield flanked by tassels, the other side later engraved with the State Department Seal bearing eighteen stars, apparently unmarked
14 ½ in. (36.8 cm.) high; 45 oz. 14 dwt. (1,422 gr.) gross weight

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Lot Essay

The design of this coffee pot was clearly derived from elegant high-style, neo-classical silhouettes and motifs as seen on contemporary pots made by Philadelphia silversmiths such as the Richardson family. With its double-fluted corners, angular spout and short neck, the present lot bears similarities to those pots made in Baltimore by Richard Rutter and Charles Louis Boehme (see Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough, Silver in Maryland, 1984, p. 91, fig. 42-44). A similar four-piece tea and coffee set by Rutter is in the collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (2081-1-4).

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