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A EARLY AMERICAN SILVER SUGAR BOWL, JOSIAH AUSTIN, CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1750
Lot Closed
October 20, 03:10 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
A EARLY AMERICAN SILVER SUGAR BOWL, JOSIAH AUSTIN, CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1750
the front engraved with a crest, the cover associated
marked on base l.Austin in rectangle
11 oz
342 g
height 4½ in.
11.5 cm
Norman W. Cabot
Jonathan Trace, January, 2004
Roy & Ruth Nutt Collection, sold
Sotheby's, New York, January 24, 2015, lot 673
Frances Hill Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and its Makers, 1917, p. 402-03 (illus. with different cover)
Patricia E. Kane et al., Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, 1998, p. 157
The crest is for the Bradstreet family.