Asta 030522 March Americana Auction
Da Casco Bay Auctions
12.3.22
147 Main Street, Freeport, ME, Stati Uniti
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LOTTO 172:

Two American Silver Casters with Crest of Jones.

Venduto per: $650
Prezzo iniziale:
$ 400
Prezzo stimato :
$800 - $1 200
Commissione per la casa d'aste: 20%
IVA: 5.5% Il prezzo e la commissione del lotto completo
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Two American Silver Casters with Crest of Jones.
Two American Silver Casters with Crest of Jones, Boston, or possibly Rhode Island, 1750-70. Each of vase shape on a molded foot, engraved with the crest of a stag’s head erased for the Jones family. The cover is pierced with alternating formal foliate strapwork and trellis diaperwork panels, turned bell finial, apparently unmarked. 9 oz. total. Heights 5.75 and 6.875 inches.

Provenance: Descended in the family of Boston merchant John Jones (1709-1767) and Mary Anne Faneuil Jones (1715-1790), sister of Peter Faneuil.

Literature: A coffee pot engraved with the Jones crest and coat-of-arms descending in the same family was sold at Sotheby’s New York, Fine American Furniture, Silver, Folk Art, June 30-July 1, 1983, lot 96 and Christie’s New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Silver, January 20, 2017, lot 765.