Tea service

ca. 1840

Place madeSaint Andrew's, New York, United States, North America

Silver, ivory

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Bequest of Miriam Jay Wurts Andrus

2000.211a-d

The service was made for Mary Augusta Weed (b. 1820), who married James Milton Benedict (1814-1867) in 1840.

DescriptionSilver tea service including a teapot, sugar bowl with lid, creamer, and waste bowl; all have inverted pear-shaped bodies with eleven wide concave flutes seated on a circular stepped feet with applied, die-rolled trefoil bands; convex shoulders raised to a tapered and flared rims or necks with an applied, die-rolled trefoil bands; scrolled handles; engraved on the front center of each body, "M. A. Benedict;" maker's marks stamped on the bases.

MarkingsMark: all pieces are stamped once at body bottom near center punch with relief mark "N.J.BOGERT" in rectangular surround. Inscription: each vessel is engraved at center-front of bodies in upper part of fluted lobe "M.A. BENEDICT"

ClassificationsSILVER