$2,500
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000
Auction: October 17, 2017 11:00:00 AM EDT
In the form of a wire or straw basket fully entwined with leafy fruiting strawberry foliage crisply modeled and carefully chased, above a similarly conceived socle and base with beaded and meander-patterned foot, the underside struck "Tiffany & C. Sterling" together with the pattern number 834 (with the 4 overstruck by a 3) and 8608 with the gothic lower case M for John C. Moore (1845-1868).
H: 4, Dia: 11in. Weight: 26 oz. t.Provenance: Property of a New York silver collector.