Historic silver of the Colonies and its makers (1917)
Bigelow, Francis Hill, 1859-1933 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 149
nin England consisted of embossed vertical acan-thus and palm leaves along the base, as on thecaudle cup (Illus. 52) from the Betts collectionbelonging to the Scroll and Key Society of YaleCollege. It bears the London date-letter for1686-87 and the makers mark WA in a mono-gram. A decoration found… … 52. London, 1686-87. H. 3I in. that of a pattern cut out of cardboard andapplied. Cut foliage of this kind may be seenon New England Colonial furniture of the lastquarter of the seventeenth century, especially inConnecticut. Of the same shape and with cut-card deco-ration is the silver-gilt caudle…
Silverwork -- United States
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