AN AMERICAN SILVER CREAM JUG

MARK OF JOHN BAYLEY, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1775

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AN AMERICAN SILVER CREAM JUG
MARK OF JOHN BAYLEY, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1775
Pear form, on three pad feet with baluster joins, scrolling handle, crenellated rim, split spout, base engraved with monogram AG, marked on base three times with maker's mark; together with another unmarked cream jug
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high; 6 oz. (196 gr.) (2)

Lot Essay

A very similar cream jug by Bayley is in the Bayou Bend Collection, Houston, illustrated in Barbara A. Almquist, "A Touch of Class: Silver in Social Settings," Philadelphia Antiques Show catalogue, 1996, p. 22.

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