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AN AMERICAN SILVER CREAM JUG
Lot 400 PROPERTY FROM THE WUNSCH COLLECTION

AN AMERICAN SILVER CREAM JUG

MARK OF THAUVET BESLEY, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1750

Closed19 January 2024

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AN AMERICAN SILVER CREAM JUG
MARK OF THAUVET BESLEY, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1750
Of baluster form with scalloped rim, raised on three scroll supports issuing from shells and terminating in trefid feet, leaf-capped scroll handle, engraved on the underside with block initials S*T, the front later engraved with monogram S.M.H., marked on underside twice TB below a crown
3 5⁄8 in. (9.2 cm.) high
3 oz. 12 dwt. (112 gr.)

The Property of A Bucks County Collector; Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 1991, lot 55.

Specialist note

Thauvet Besley (1691-1757) was the son of Huguenots who had fled France and lived briefly in England before emigrating to America. Besley himself was born in New York, but trained in London and worked in Amsterdam for roughly twelve years before returning to New York in 1727.