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Important American Folk Art, Furniture and Silver Including the Gary Gold Dinner Service
2005 | USA
Lot 17 | A SILVER COFFEE POT, GEORGE AIKEN, BALTIMORE, CIRCA 1800
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urn form, engraved on each side with an oval above crossed palms and below rose sprays, engraved inside with a sunburst enclosing on one side arms and a crest, the shoulders bright-cut with a band of foliage below the lift-off cover with urn finial, marked on foot rim [G]Aiken script in shaped oval
CATALOGUE NOTE
George Aiken (1765-1832) was born in Philadelphia but advertised in Baltimore by 1787. In 1814, he was one of the twenty silversmiths to sign a letter protesting the Assay Act.
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Auction House
Sotheby's
Auction Title
Important American Folk Art, Furniture and Silver Including the Gary Gold Dinner Service
Auction Date
2005
