Live Auction 2004Important English, Continental and American Silver
AN AMERICAN SILVER CREAM JUG
Lot 267

AN AMERICAN SILVER CREAM JUG

MARK OF JOHN BAYLEY, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1775

Closed22 May 2008

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USD 3,250

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AN AMERICAN SILVER CREAM JUG
MARK OF JOHN BAYLEY, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1775
Pear form, on three pad feet with baluster joins, scrolling handle, crenellated rim, split spout, base engraved with monogram AG, marked on base three times with maker's mark; together with another unmarked cream jug
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high; 6 oz. (196 gr.) (2)

Specialist note

A very similar cream jug by Bayley is in the Bayou Bend Collection, Houston, illustrated in Barbara A. Almquist, "A Touch of Class: Silver in Social Settings," Philadelphia Antiques Show catalogue, 1996, p. 22.