$5,400
Six-piece Gorham Sterling Silver Tea Set, Providence, Rhode Island, most pieces with date letter for 1869, small teapot with date letter for 1868, kettle with date letter for 1869 and possible date cipher for 1913, with kettle on stand and burner, two teapots, ht. 7 3/4 and 8 1/2 in., creamer, sugar, and waste bowl, each with rim of cast teardrops over body chased and embossed with foliate motifs framed by Victorian ornament and vacant medallions, over protruding palmette register, on domed foot with beaded edge, kettle and teapots with ivory heat stops, approx. 149.8 troy oz. Sugar lacking cover. Waste bowl with one bent handle. Stand not completely flush with table surface. Kettle lacking one handle pin. Scattered light surface abrasions.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-10-06
