$2,938
Gorham Manufacturing Co. Whimsical Mixed Metal Chafing Dish, after a design by Joseph Heinrich, third quarter 19th century, the hammered copper dish with hammered silver rim mounts, lid with oak mushroom finial set with silver scrolls, with turned oak and silver mounted handle, the dish raised on base with three hammered copper and silver mounted scroll legs, each set with a realistically cast copper rabbit, the whole on round oak base with riveted copper flashing, together with a small associated Italian burner, ht. 10 1/2, lg. 21 in. Literature: For a similar example by Heinrich, retailed by Cowell & Hubbard Co., Cleveland, Ohio, see Figure 9.3 in Silver in America, 1840-1940, A Century of Splendor, by Charles L. Venable: Dallas Museum of Art, 1994.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2002-04-06
