AN AMERICAN SILVER PORRINGER

Lot 377
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Lot 377 | AN AMERICAN SILVER PORRINGER
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AN AMERICAN SILVER PORRINGER

MARK OF SAMUEL VERNON, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, CIRCA 1730

The pierced keyhole handle engraved with block initials EM, the underside also later engraved with foliate initials EM, marked on underside SV with a cross below in a heart

7 ½ in. (19 cm.) long, over handle

8 oz. 2 dwt. (252 gr.)





Provenance

For a member of the Malbone Family, possibly Evan Malbone (c. 1718-1784), thence by decent through the family.

With Englewood Antiques Corp., Englewood, New Jersey, by 1966.

Acquired from the above by Cornelius C. Moore (1885-1970).

The Cornelius C. Moore Collection of Early American Silver; Sotheby's, New York, 21 January 1986, lot 6.



Literature

Anne Spokas, American Silver 1670-1830: The Cornelius C. Moore Collection at Providence College, Providence, 1980, item 4, p. 47.
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