Sotheby's
Important American Folk Art, Furniture and Silver Including the Gary Gold Dinner Service
2005 | USA
Lot 18 | A SILVER MOTE SPOON, JOSEPH RICHARDSON, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1750
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the oval bowl pierced with strapwork patterns, edged on the back with an engraved line, double drop handle with bead and point terminal, engraved initials barred IF, marked on back IR in oval
CATALOGUE NOTE
The IF initials may be for a member of the Fisher family. A bowl for Jeremiah and Elizabeth Fisher, engraved with their block initials and arms, is illustrated by Martha Gandy Fales (fig. 62, p. 97). In 1745 John Fisher purchased a small teapot from Richardson (ibid., p. 86).
A mote spoon by Richardson pierced with strapwork is in the Philadephia Museum, see Worldly Goods, no. 276, p. 197. Another example, descended in the Morris family, was sold from the Walter M. Jeffords collection, Sotheby's, New York, October 29, 2004, lot 649.
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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
