Property from the Collection of Roy J. Zuckerberg
A Pair of American Silver Waiters, Joseph Richardson, Sr., Philadelphia, Circa 1760
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January 23, 07:00 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Bid
10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
shaped circular with part-fluted borders and cast shell and scroll rims, each marked twice (Fales 32c) and with leaf incuse (Fales 32J)
16 oz 5 dwt
502 g
diameter 7 in.
17.8 cm
Robert Jackson and Ann Gillooly, September 20, 1990
Jeanne Sloane, Artistry and Enterprise: American Silver 1660-1790 - Survey of American Colonial silver held in the collection of Roy J. Zuckerberg, New York, Smallwood & Stewart, 2018, no. 127, p. 250-251
The model for these rococo waiters is very English, and Jeanne Sloane has documented Richardson's orders for similar items from London, such as stands for teapots and coffee pots requested in 1759 and "Stands or weighters... with Chast shells on the Border" ordered the follow year.
The 1759 English examples are described as "chased", suggesting they had further ornament, while the offered salvers - despite the rims likely having been cast from English examples - have plain surfaces more in keeping with American tastes.
A Richardson Sr. waiter with similar border but less pronounced rim was owned by Ann Johnson and Rachel Wistar of Wyck, Germantown, see Sotheby's New York, 28 October 2004, lot 643.
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