Property from the Collection of Richard Kent
An American Silver-Mounted Cut-Glass "Art Nouveau" Claret Jug, Attributed to T.G. Hawkes, Corning, NY (Glass) and William B. Durgin Co., Concord, NH (Silver), Circa 1900
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October 18, 08:24 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
An American Silver-Mounted Cut-Glass "Art Nouveau" Claret Jug, Attributed to T.G. Hawkes, Corning, NY (Glass) and William B. Durgin Co., Concord, NH (Silver), Circa 1900
with bulbous lower body and tall bombé stem, cut with irises with scalloped edges and engraved petals, surrounded by whiplash foliage, continued in silver on the scroll handle and hinged cover, the neck mount shaped as overlapping lily pads, marked STERLING on base and with not clear mark, probably the D in oval for Durgin
Height 12 1/2 in.
31.8 cm
Sotheby's, New York, June 20-21, 1996, lot 142
The attribution to Hawkes and Durgin is based on two marked almost identical jugs, mounted in silver-gilt. One is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and was illustrated in Charles L. Venable, Silver in America 1840-1940 - A Century of Splendor, 1994, figure 9.2, p. 252; the other is in an Austrian private collection (http://www.karaffensammler.at/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=20110).
The Durgin firm was founded in 1853, and by the 1890s was producing sophisticated examples of silver-mounted claret jugs, despite its location away from a major urban center; see an example sold from the Victor Niederhoffer Collection, Replica Shoes 's New York, December 15, 1998, lot 39, and another sold Eldred's, August 5, 2005, lot 887, probably incorporating Hawkes glass. Both William B. Durgin and his son died in 1905, and the firm was bought out by the Gorham Mfg. Co.
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