A Pair of American Silver Sugar Tongs

Paul Revere, Boston, Massachusetts, 1734-1818

marked REVERE within rectangle.
with undulating thread engraving and monogram AD for Ann Maria Dodd (1819-1897).
14 dwt
Length 6 inches.

Tongs likely monogrammed by another silversmith as Revere died in 1818, twenty-seven years before Ann Maria's wedding to luxury goods merchant William Bellamy (1801-1874) on 13 March 1845, when she was given the tongs by her grandfather, Timothy Dodd, Jr. (1753-1838), the original owner.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Provenance:

Timothy Dodd Jr., Boston, Massachusetts (1753-1828);

gifted to his granddaughter Ann Maria Dodd, Boston (1819-1897) on the occasion of her wedding in 1845;

thence to her daughter Ann Maria Bellamy, Boston (1850-1950);

thence to her son George Bellamy Taylor, Boston (1873-1968);

thence to his son William Haviland Taylor, Boston (1904- 1989);

thence to his daughter Nancy Wentworth Taylor Peterson, Phoenix Arizona (1929-2017);

by descent to the present owner.

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Ben Fisher

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Mr. Fisher rejoined the firm in 2019 after working as a specialist in the American Furniture and Folk Art department at Sotheby’s New York. His areas of expertise include 18th, 19th, and 20th century American, Continental, and English furniture, decorative and folk art. Before coming to Hindman in 2013, Mr. Fisher worked in European Furniture and Decorative Arts in Philadelphia. He began his career working for a prints dealer focusing on works from the 16th through the 20th centuries.

Leah Vogelpohl

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Ms. Vogelpohl joined the firm in 2013 as a cataloger in the American and European Furniture and Decorative Arts department. She became a department specialist in 2017, focusing on American decorative arts and silver. She received a BA from the College of Charleston and an MLITT in Art History from the University of Glasgow.

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A Pair of American Silver Sugar Tongs

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