Lot 27: AN AMERICAN SILVER AND COPPER "JAPANESQUE" WATER PITCHER, WILLIAM WILSON & SON, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1881

of baulster form, the upper body embossed and chased wih rockwork surface applied with a climbing turtle with copper shell, the lower body with hammered surface with an applied kingfisher and two fish amongst engraved water grasses, the handle in the form of a branch terminating in oak leaves, the base inscribed "Jen.Dec.25th 1881,"
marked on base
height 8 3/8 in.
21.3 cm
31ozs 10dwt
980g

Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1991, lot 42
Sotheby's, New York, 15 June 1998, lot 1549