AN AMERICAN SILVER AND MIXED METAL THREE-PIECE `BACHELOR` TEA SERVICE

Lot 402
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Lot 402 | AN AMERICAN SILVER AND MIXED METAL THREE-PIECE 'BACHELOR' TEA SERVICE
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$ 7 000 – 10 000
AN AMERICAN SILVER AND MIXED METAL THREE-PIECE 'BACHELOR' TEA SERVICE

MARK OF DOMINICK & HAFF, NEW YORK, 1879, RETAILED BY HOWARD & CO., NEW YORK

Comprising a teapot, creamer, and two-handled sugar bowl, all baluster-form with squared necks, spot-hammered surfaces and stylized caterpillar-form handles and spouts, applied with copper and Japanese gold flying insects, birds, a lizard, and a squirrel amongst foliage, marked on undersides and with retailer mark

8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) long, over handle, the teapot

26 oz. 4 dwt. (815 gr.) gross weight





Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 January 1989, lot 262.

The Jerome Rapoport Collection of American Aesthetic Silver; Sotheby's, New York, 20 June 1996, lot 64.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
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