Lot 599
  • 599

A PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVER CANNS, STEPHEN EMERY, BOSTON, CIRCA 1775

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on base S.Emery in script in cartouche.
  • height 5 1/8 in.
  • 13 cm
handles engraved G/JA.

Provenance

Jonathan Trace, June 1978

Exhibited

Seattle Art Museum, 1991-96

Literature

Kane 1998 p. 472 

Condition

one with minor dents to lower body, the other with some dings to rim, overall good
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