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PROPERTY FROM THE ORANGE BLOSSOM COLLECTION
AN AMERICAN SIX-PIECE SILVER TEA SERVICE
MARK OF SAMUEL KIRK, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 1830-1846
Details
AN AMERICAN SIX-PIECE SILVER TEA SERVICE
MARK OF SAMUEL KIRK, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 1830-1846
Comprising a two teapots, a hot water urn, a creamer, a sugar bowl and cover, and waste bowl, all chased and engraved with birds and figures within fantastical landscapes of villages, temps, and bridges in the Chinoiserie taste and dense flowers and foliage, with foliate finials, the teapots with loop handles engraved with flowers, the hot water urn and creamer with square handles, the sugar bowl and waste bowl with scalloped rims, all engraved with a lion head crest, marked on undersides or foot rims, the sugar bowl and waste bowl apparently unmarked
17 in. (43.2 cm.) high, the hot water urn
208 oz. 8 dwt. (6,481 gr.) gross weight
MARK OF SAMUEL KIRK, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 1830-1846
Comprising a two teapots, a hot water urn, a creamer, a sugar bowl and cover, and waste bowl, all chased and engraved with birds and figures within fantastical landscapes of villages, temps, and bridges in the Chinoiserie taste and dense flowers and foliage, with foliate finials, the teapots with loop handles engraved with flowers, the hot water urn and creamer with square handles, the sugar bowl and waste bowl with scalloped rims, all engraved with a lion head crest, marked on undersides or foot rims, the sugar bowl and waste bowl apparently unmarked
17 in. (43.2 cm.) high, the hot water urn
208 oz. 8 dwt. (6,481 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 15 June 1998, lot 1502.
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