MARK OF PAUL REVERE, JR., BOSTON, CIRCA 1795-1800

Details

A PAIR OF SILVER SUGAR TONGS
MARK OF PAUL REVERE, JR., BOSTON, CIRCA 1795-1800
Spring form, with shell tips and wrigglework and bead borders, engraved with script initial R, marked on reverse (Kane mark D)
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) long; 1 oz. 10 dwt. (59 gr.)

Provenance

Pauline Revere Thayer (Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer), great-grandaughter of Paul Revere
Christie's, New York, 22-23 January 1993, lot 229

Literature

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, 1998, p. 828

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Lot Essay

Two nearly identical pairs of sugar tongs by Revere, also owned by Pauline Revere Thayer and with Kane mark D, are now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (illus. Kathryn C. Buhler, American Silver, 1972, nos. 411 and 412, p. 462).

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