Auction: 20th Century Design - 2552BLocation: BostonDate / Time: June 25, 2011 10:00AM
Description:
Per Smed Four-piece Silver Coffee and Tea Service with Matching Tray
Sterling silver
New York, c. 1935
Comprising a teapot, coffeepot, creamer, and covered sugar bowl with hammered finish on globular bodies with openwork and scroll-chased stems and tendrils, and leaf-capped handles, lift-off domical covers with finials modeled as jack-in-the-pulpit blossoms and leaves, matching oval two-handle tray with large jack-in-the-pulpit blossoms forming the handles, impressed maker's marks PEER SMED/STERLING/HANWROUGHT on bases, minor dents, ht. 3 3/8-8 3/4, tray dia. 20 1/2 in., approx. 126 1/2 troy oz. total.
Estimate $8,000-12,000
Minor dents on cover rims, minor light scratches.