Dominick & Haff Aesthetic Movement Sterling Silver Tea Caddy

Description:

Dominick & Haff Aesthetic Movement Sterling Silver Tea Caddy, New York, last decade 19th century, bearing an additional "ET" in a small square cartouche to both pieces, vasiform, elaborately decorated allover with various insects, leafy plants and flowers within stylized geometric-patterned borders to the foot and shoulder, engraved to the bottom "SABS/1893," ht. 4 3/4 in., approx. 7.6 troy oz.

Provenance: By family decent from Sophia Augusta Brown Sherman (1867-1947),daughter of John Carter Brown II (1797-1874) and Sophia Augusta Browne Brown (1825-1909) and the wife of William Watts Sherman (1842-1912),to the present owner.
Estimate $300-500

Two dents to lower body affecting foot (still stable),two shallow, unobtrusive dents to upper body.


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