Important Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints
Important Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints
An American Silver Fifteen-Piece Terrapin Set, Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, Circa 1880-85
Auction Closed
January 20, 04:11 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
comprising: a Serving Spoon and fourteen Terrapin Forks, the handles with high-relief turtles among seaweed, initialed L, with another turtle above the gilt ruffled shell bowls, the backs with shells, marked and numbered 21 (server) and H 22 (forks)
20 oz., 622 g
Length of server: 9 5/8 in., 24.4 cm
The design of the handles, with the naturalistic high relief decoration, is close to that of Gorham's Hizen pattern flatware, introduced about 1880 (see Charles Carpenter, Gorham Silver, 1831-1981, fig. 100, p. 105.