Live Auction 18947In Praise of America: Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints and Broadsides
1900 PARIS EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE: AN AMERICAN SILVER AND GLASS CLARET JUG
Lot 241 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARY M. AND ROBERT M. MONTGOMERY, JR.

1900 PARIS EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE: AN AMERICAN SILVER AND GLASS CLARET JUG

MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 1900, MARTELÉ, RETAILED BY SPAULDING & CO., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Closed22 January 2021

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1900 PARIS EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE: AN AMERICAN SILVER AND GLASS CLARET JUG
MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 1900, MARTELÉ, RETAILED BY SPAULDING & CO., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
The glass body of baluster form with elongated neck etched with scrolling grapevine and poppies in various stages of bloom on whiplash stems, supported on a shaped square silver foot chased to match and rising to a mount with vacant shield and connecting the reeded scroll handle to the silver neck mount, the hinged dome cover with poppy-form finial, marked on underside and with retailer's mark, inside of one foot with coded D4386
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
70 oz. 4 dwt. (2,183 gr.)

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Larry Pristo notes in Martelé Gorham's Nouveau Art Silver, 2002, pg. 218-219, that Claret Jug 4386 was finished on 16 May 1900. The silver mounts were raised in 71 hours and then chased by acclaimed Martelé silversmith George W. Sauthof for 67 hours. It's net factory price was $200. Pristo also notes that the glass cost $15, and that it was exhibited at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle.