A RARE PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVER PEPPER BOX AND MUSTARD POT, JOHN BURT, BOSTON, CIRCA 1730

one stamped with a swan, the other with fleur-de-lys to indicate alignment of covers, one only partly pierced, both bases engraved Mary * Cutt.

Stanley Paul Sax collection
Sotheby's New York, January 16, 1998, lot 75

The Magazine Antiques 112, November 1977, p. 897
Kane 1998, p. 252

partly pierced one with handle resoldered at top and base, tiny holes above base band, the piercing probably added as this was originally blind; the fully pierced one with small rim split hidden by cover, tiny split in top molding, handle may have been resoldered otherwise good, very rare to have a matching pair
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