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    23 May 2007

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    • AN AMERICAN SILVER-MOUNTED PAT
    Lot 210

    AN AMERICAN SILVER-MOUNTED PATINATED COPPER TRAY

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

    Price realised

    USD 2,040

    Estimate

    USD 2,500 - USD 3,000

    This lot is offered without a reserve

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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.)

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    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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