Lot 350
  • 350

AN AMERICAN SILVER GOTHIC GALLERIED TRAY, WILLIAM FORBES, RETAILED BY BALL, TOMPKINS & BLACK, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1840-45

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • marked BALL TOMPKINS & BLACK, successors to Marquand & Co.
  • length 18 1/4 in.
  • 46.3 cm
with openwork feet and gallery of gothic quatrefoils, the surface engraved with leafy scrolls enclosing monogram GMS, pheasants and a fox.

Provenance

Jackson/Gillooly, April 1998

Condition

some minor scratches and some salt spotting to surface, otherwise good
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