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A Rare American Silver Cream Jug.

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Description Thomas Dane, Boston ca. 1750. With a pear-form body with scalloped edge, flared spout and three cast and chased pad feet. Engraved under base over mark M:T. Old repairs to spout; repairs to top and bottom of handle joins. Kane mark A(p. 363).
*Surviving work by Thomas Dane is very unusual- there are just over ten pieces noted by him, one other a cream jug like this one. For a fuller discussion of this silversmith, especially his actual dates, see Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (1998), pp. 363-5.
Height: 3-1/2; weight: 3.1 oz. Size 3 - 1/2" T.

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