Lot 659
  • 659

AN AMERICAN SILVER PORRINGER, SIMEON SOUMAINE, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1730

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on either side of handle SS in rectangle.
  • silver
  • length 7 3/8 in.
  • 18.7 cm
base engraved W/two initials not clear and IWH.

Provenance

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 17, 1968, lot 182
S.J. Shrubsole, October 1977

Exhibited

Seattle Art Museum, 1991-96

Condition

as noted re. initials, crack center of handle, otherwise good
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