An American Silver Porringer from the Tew Family, Samuel Vernon, Newport, circa 1730
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April 21, 08:50 PM GMT
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3,000 - 5,000 USD
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An American Silver Porringer from the Tew Family, Samuel Vernon, Newport, circa 1730
With deep bowl, double-arched keyhole handle engraved MT to MD and E*C, the base engraved Made at Newport, R.I. 1762 (sic) for Margaret Tew / Given in 1778 to Margaret Drew: Given in 1807 to Elizabeth Champlin / Given 1855 to D.C. Knight / Given to Ell J. Von Kamecke,/ Dec. 25, 1894., marked in bowl.
8 in. (20.2 cm.) long
9 oz. 5 dwt. (287 g)
Sotheby's New York, January 31, 1986, lot 5
Wolf Family Collection No. 0824 (acquired from the above)
Louise Conway Belden, Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissell Collection, p. 422
Margaret Easton (b. 1701) married in 1728 Henry Tew (b. 1681) as his second wife. On his death in 1731 he left 59 ounces of plate, and his widow was granted guardianship of her two children, John and Elisabeth. Elisabeth Tew married James Drew, and their daughter Margaret - presumably named for her grandmother - was born about 1762. On Margaret Tew's death in 1779, she left to her granddaughters Margaret and Elisabeth "the silver marked with their names."
Margaret Drew married in 1786 William Champlin; her daughter Elisabeth was born in 1787.
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