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A 1750 Boston Silver Covered Sugar Bowl by Samuel Boyer

$40,000.00
Offered for sale, an exceptional colonial American covered silver sugar bowl by Daniel Boyer of Boston. This sugar is marked at the bottom with the BOYER mark in rectangular cartouche.Inverted pear form on molded circular foot, the domed handle with a flaring ring handle. The base engraved for four generations of owners starting with C:A VF 1753, quite possibly patriot and Boston resident, Charles Vanderfoot. Subsequently engraved: SPVV 1816, CVVB 1851, TDB 1889z The design of these sugars have much in common with mid-17th century Chinese covered rice bowls. A very similar example was sold by Christies: https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-a-silver-covered-sugar-bowl-mark-of-4853498/?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4853498. A nearly identical sugar bowl also by Samuel Johnson is in the collection of Historic Deerfield, illustrated in Flynt and Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, 1968, fig. 62, p. 90. Weight: 282 grams Dimensions (inches) 4.25" (H) x 4.5 "(w) Condition: A possible small old repair (shown) Check out some more American silver holloware: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DCSILVERSHOP?section_id=19121632 Browse around the whole shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DCSILVERSHOP
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Offered for sale, an exceptional colonial American covered silver sugar bowl by Daniel Boyer of Boston. This sugar is marked at the bottom with the BOYER mark in rectangular cartouche.Inverted pear form on molded circular foot, the domed handle with a flaring ring handle. The base engraved for four generations of owners starting with C:A VF 1753, quite possibly patriot and Boston resident, Charles Vanderfoot. Subsequently engraved: SPVV 1816, CVVB 1851, TDB 1889z The design of these sugars have much in common with mid-17th century Chinese covered rice bowls. A very similar example was sold by Christies: https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-a-silver-covered-sugar-bowl-mark-of-4853498/?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4853498. A nearly identical sugar bowl also by Samuel Johnson is in the collection of Historic Deerfield, illustrated in Flynt and Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, 1968, fig. 62, p. 90. Weight: 282 grams Dimensions (inches) 4.25" (H) x 4.5 "(w) Condition: A possible small old repair (shown) Check out some more American silver holloware: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DCSILVERSHOP?section_id=19121632 Browse around the whole shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DCSILVERSHOP
Offered for sale, an exceptional colonial American covered silver sugar bowl by Daniel Boyer of Boston. This sugar is marked at the bottom with the BOYER mark in rectangular cartouche.Inverted pear form on molded circular foot, the domed handle with a flaring ring handle. The base engraved for four generations of owners starting with C:A VF 1753, quite possibly patriot and Boston resident, Charles Vanderfoot. Subsequently engraved: SPVV 1816, CVVB 1851, TDB 1889z The design of these sugars have much in common with mid-17th century Chinese covered rice bowls. A very similar example was sold by Christies: https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-a-silver-covered-sugar-bowl-mark-of-4853498/?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4853498. A nearly identical sugar bowl also by Samuel Johnson is in the collection of Historic Deerfield, illustrated in Flynt and Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, 1968, fig. 62, p. 90. Weight: 282 grams Dimensions (inches) 4.25" (H) x 4.5 "(w) Condition: A possible small old repair (shown) Check out some more American silver holloware: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DCSILVERSHOP?section_id=19121632 Browse around the whole shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DCSILVERSHOP