Lot 1258
  • 1258

An American silver cream pot and sugar urn and cover, Joseph Richardson Jr., Philadelphia, circa 1800

Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 USD
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Description

  • marked on bases J.R in rectangle, twice on sugar urn
  • silver
  • height of sugar urn 8 5/8 in.
  • 21.9 cm
the front engraved with foliate initials SEB

Provenance

Jonathan Trace, July 1981 (creamer)
Sotheby's, New York, January 28-30, 1993, lot 115 (sugar urn)

Condition

sugar urn with repair where body meets foot, cover with urn finial pushed down on one side; creamer good
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