Lot 680
  • 680

AN AMERICAN SILVER BOWL, BENJAMIN HILLER, BOSTON, CIRCA 1740

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on base BH in shield (Kane mark A).
  • diameter 6 7/8 in.
  • 17.5 cm
base engraved with contemporary block initials W/W*S, the side with later foliate initials MR.

Provenance

Ginsberg & Levy
Richard Loeb, Princeton, NJ, 1966
Burrows Collection, 1980-1993
Jonathan Trace, January 1994

Exhibited

SAM American Sampler, 2002-2005

Literature

Kane 1998, p. 551
The Magazine Antiques 88 (July 1955), p. 13

Condition

minor dings to rim, overall good
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