A RARE AND MONUMENTAL SILVER-MOUNTED COPPER PUNCH BOWL, TWO-HANDLED TRAY, AND EIGHT CUPS

Lot 687
24.01.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1362410
Lot 687 | A RARE AND MONUMENTAL SILVER-MOUNTED COPPER PUNCH BOWL, TWO-HANDLED TRAY, AND EIGHT CUPS
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
A RARE AND MONUMENTAL SILVER-MOUNTED COPPER PUNCH BOWL, TWO-HANDLED TRAY, AND EIGHT CUPS
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH HEINRICH, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1910, RETAILED BY THEODORE B. STARR, NEW YORK
The large copper punch bowl with gilt interior, raised on a spreading circular base modeled as straps of leather stitched with silver lacing and applied with arrowheads, the bowl with spot-hammered surface and engraved with tassels, the upper rim applied with silver and copper Native American heads, bear pelts, and shields with spears, hammers, and feathers, the circular tray with antler handles surrounded by applied arrowheads, the border engraved with scenes of Native Americans hunting in a forest and canoeing, the center with a presentation inscription, the conforming circular cups with gilt interiors, on scrolled circular bases, applied with silver straps to the body connecting to the silver loop handles, marked throughout COPPER AND SILVER and with retailer's mark for Theodore B Starr
30 ½ (77.4 cm.) long, over handles, the tray; 23 in. (58.4 cm.) long, over handles, the punch bowl
The presentation inscription on the tray reads,
MONROE DRIVING PARK ASSOCIATION
COMSEWOGUE TROPHY
PRESENTED BY
COMSEWOGUE FARM
FOR TWO AND THREE YEAR OLD TROTTERS
TO BE WON THREE TIMES
BY THE SAME OWNER
WON BY
ARDEN HOMESTEAD STABLE
GUY TROGAN 1923 GUY OZARK 1925
PETER MALTBY 1926




Provenance

Presented to Abel Harriman, Arden Homestead Stables, Arden, New York, circa 1926.
Presented in turn to horse trainer William K. Dickerson, thence by descent until acquired,
Private New Jersey Collection, sold,
Sotheby's, New York, 14 December 2007, lot 368.
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
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