Important Americana
Important Americana
The Patriot: Three Important Silver Works by Paul Revere from a Private American Collection
An American Silver Coffee Pot, Paul Revere II, Boston, 1770–75
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Lot closed
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Lot Sold
444,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
double-bellied baluster form with stepped lid and pinecone and acanthus finial, gadroon borders, fluted S-scroll spout rising from a shell, matching upper terminal, engraved on one side with rococo cartouche with flower sprays and bellflowers enclosing monogram MSS, maker’s mark [pellet]Revere left of handle, also engraved with scratch weight oz 40 – 10.
42 oz gross
1306.3 g
height: 12 3/4 in.
32.4 cm
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Micajah and Sibyl Sawyer, Newburyport
Descended in the family until sold
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, April 30 – May 3, 1980, lot 184
Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, 1998, p. 812
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1980s–2014
Dr. Micajah Sawyer (1737–1815) was a “celebrated physician of Newburyport.” He was the son of Enoch Sawyer and Sarah Pierpont of Newbury; graduating Harvard in 1756, he married in 1766 Sibyl Farnham, daughter of Daniel Farnham, lawyer of Newburyport and York County, Maine, and his wife Sibyl Angier. They had eight children, but only four lived to adulthood.
Their son William attended Dummer Academy, then graduated Harvard in 1788. After practicing medicine with his father, he became a very successful merchant and in 1816 bought 87 Mount Vernon St. in Boston, a Charles Bullfinch–designed townhouse that is now the headquarters of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.