$3,276
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
Auction: May 3, 2022 11:00:00 AM EDT
Oval bowl, flat handle, trefid end, beaded "rattail" bowl back, engraved with monogram, "H/ L*M," to underside of handle end, marked, "EW," to underside of handle.
L: 7 1/2 in. W: 1 3/4 in., Weight: 1.47 oz. t.Provenance
Jonathan Trace, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, January 2004
Collection of Roy and Ruth Nutt
Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Roy and Ruth Nutt: Highly Important American Silver, January 24, 2015, lot 717
A private New Jersey collection.
Literature
Kane, Patricia E., Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven: 1998), pg. 956
Note
A matching spoon with the same monogram and mark is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, which is illustrated in Hood, Kathryn C. and Hood, Graham, American Silver: Garvan and Other Collections in the Yale University Art Gallery (Alan Wofsy Fine Arts: 1997), no. 46, pg. 52-53. Two other examples are found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Heritage Foundation Collection.