Vegetable dish and stand

1785

Place madeParis, France, Europe

Silver

Overall: 8 1/8 in. × 5 5/8 in. × 10 in. (20.6 × 14.3 × 25.4 cm)

Gift of the Estate of Mrs. J. H. Ten Eyck Burr, through Mrs. Walter Oakman

1951.17a-c

This vegetable dish and stand may have been owned by New York merchant John Murray (1737-1808), whose estate encompassed today's Manhattan neighborhood, Murray Hill.

DescriptionWrought silver Louis XVI vegetable dish, cover and stand; deep, bowl-shaped body with an applied, molded band around the rim; two cast foliate loop handles with the joints in the form of leaves, applied to opposite sides of the body; cylindrical handle socket with a shield shaped joint and threaded interior below one of the cast handles; hallmarks stamped on the rim and base; circular, stepped and domed cover with an applied reeded rim; cast pineapple and leaf finial screwed through the center of the dome; engraved on the dome, "Murray 1766./ Ledyard 1881" in script; circular, plate-shaped stand with a circular depression in the center, raised sides and an applied, molded rim; engraved on the base, "Murray 1766 to 1881./ Lizzie V. Ledyard./ The Oaks. Cazenovia./ 1881" in script; hallmarks stamped on the rim and base. Missing turned wooden handle.

Markingsengraved: on the dome of the cover: "Murray 1766./ Ledyard 1881" in script engraved: on the base: "Murray 1766 to 1881./ Lizzie V. Ledyard./ The Oaks. Cazenovia./ 1881" in script stamped: on the base of the dish: "A" crowned, a crowned cross over "J * N/ R," and an unidentifiable hallmark stamped: on the ri of the dish: a leaf in a circle, an urn conforming stamped: on the base of the stand: "A" crowned, crown over, "P * J/ L" divide by an anchor [?], crowned "P" stamped: on the rim of the stand: a leaf in a circle, an urn conforming

ClassificationsSILVER