Live Auction 18947In Praise of America: Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints and Broadsides
AN AMERICAN SILVER VASE
Lot 237 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARY M. AND ROBERT M. MONTGOMERY, JR.

AN AMERICAN SILVER VASE

MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 1899, MARTELÉ

Closed22 January 2021

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AN AMERICAN SILVER VASE
MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 1899, MARTELÉ
On a lobed square base raised on rounded bracket feet chased with fish faces, rising to a baluster stem chased with leaves and climbing tendrils terminating in stylized daffodils, the shaped everted rim chased with petals, marked on underside and coded 2292 and with date symbol for 1899
11 7/8 in. (30.1 cm.) high
26 oz. 6 dwt. (817 gr.)

Specialist note


Gorham's Martelé archives as reproduced by Larry Pristo in Martelé Gorham's Nouveau Art Silver, 2002, p. 198, notes that vase 2292 was completed on 5 October, 1899 and had a net factory price of $116. The vase was raised in 32 hours and then chased for an additional 53 hours by Frederick Joseph Buxton Jr.

The form and chased decoration on this vase relates closely to a pair of vases sold in these rooms 24 January 2020, lot 386. These vases, coded 1481, were completed on 24 April, 1899, just six months earlier than the present lot, and were shown at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900.