$3,000
Assembled Six-Piece Coin Silver Tea Service, America, early 19th century, the set comprised of two teapots, covered sugar bowl, creamer, waste bowl, and a kettle on stand with burner, each similar in form with oval urn-form bodies with large gadrooned lobes set on stepped oval pedestals with gadrooned bands, the covers both hinged and lift-top with urn finials and gadrooned bands, the teapots with S-curve spouts and curvilinear black painted hardwood handles, the sugar bowl and creamer with two strap handles with reeding on the edges tapering to a point below; the kettle with hollow angled handles with four ivory heat stops, applied spout with pivoting handle with anthemia, flowers, and beading, mounted on an oval stand with four anthemion legs with two C-scrolls and scrolled feet, and applied cast scrolled anthemion; the oval lamp with stepped oval top with two burners, the two teapots and creamer with engraved monogram "HCF" and with engraved inscription around interior base "Hannah Cooke Smith inherited from her Grandmother Hannah Cooke Franklin," the kettle on stand covered sugar bowl and waste bowl engraved with the monogram "HCS" and engraved around the interior base "Hannah Cooke Smith from her Father Amos D. Smith," the creamer with an impressed "TM" touchmark, ht. 5 7/8-16 in., approx. 117 weighable troy oz. creamer slightly slumped around base, kettle slightly slumped forward, very minor light wear to all pieces, no noticable dents or scratches. troy Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-02-19
