Three-piece Silver Tea Service

Description:

Three-piece Silver Tea Service, Ball, Tompkins & Black, New York, c. 1839, a teapot, covered sugar bowl, and creamer, each of baluster form with hollow basket of flowers finials on domed lids, hollow scrolled leaf-form handles, with engraved shaped reserves with scrolled acanthus borders, on stepped circular bases, impressed maker's marks under bases, (teapot finial leans inward, dent to shoulder),ht. 7 to 10 in., approx. 53 troy oz. total.
Estimate $400-600

also small dimpled dent on sugar bowl lid.


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