Lot 600
  • 600

A PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVER PORRINGERS, SAMUEL MINOTT, BOSTON, CIRCA 1770

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on base of handles Minott in script in rectangle (Kane mark B).
  • length 7 7/8 in.
  • 20 cm
keyhole handles engraved with a crest, bases engraved I/D*I.

Provenance

Bayou Bend Collection, Houston (one)
Jackson/Gillooly, April 1983

Exhibited

SAM American Sampler, 2002-2005

Literature

David B. Warren, Bayou Bend: American Furniture, Paintings, and Silver from the Bayou Bend Collection, 1975, no. 298 (one)
Kane 1998 p. 693

Condition

reverse of handle with cast-in old mark; good condition
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Catalogue Note

Crest is possibly that of the Jennings family.