Lot 700
  • 700

AN AMERICAN SILVER SMALL CUP, WILLIAM COWELL SR., BOSTON, CIRCA 1720-30

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 USD
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Description

  • marked left of handle WC in rectangle (Kane mark D).
  • silver
  • height 2 in.
  • 5.1 cm
base engraved A/IM.

Provenance

James and Mary Avery
Anderson Galleries, December 3-5, 1936, lot 442
American Art Association
Jonathan Trace, January 1990

Exhibited

Seattle Art Museum, 1991-96

Literature

Kane 1998, p. 357

Condition

scratches to base over initial M, otherwise good
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