Durham Silver Co.
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Durham Silver Co.
A five-piece American silver tea service, Durham Silver Company, USA, c.1950-1960
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 30 000 - 40 000
Selling Price
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ZAR 78 082
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Cape Town
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New York
A five-piece American silver tea service, Durham Silver Company, USA, c.1950-1960
comprising: a coffee pot, teapot, cream jug, two-handled covered sugar bowl and slop bowl, each of baluster outline, raised on a spreading circular foot, chased with foliate scrolls and foliate panels, with gadrooned rim, each domed, hinged cover similarly chased and surmounted by a cast artichoke finial, with scroll handles, the coffee pot and teapot with swan-neck spouts, 3000g all in
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height of coffee pot: 28cm; width: 25cm; depth: 11,5cm
Notes
This five-piece tea and coffee service was made by the Durham Silver Company of New York, active in the mid-twentieth century. Its hand-chased floral panels, gadrooned borders and acorn finials reflect the Colonial Revival taste that persisted in American formal silver well into the 1950s and 60s, offering a traditional, hand-worked alternative to the increasingly modernist design of the period. Durham remains a comparatively little documented maker beside majors such as Gorham or Reed & Barton.
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