$2,700
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Auction: November 15, 2017 10:00:00 AM EDT
All of marquise form, the first, painted en grisaille, depicting woman weeping beside covered and swagged urn surmounting plinth inscribed, "In Memory of/ Mrs Obedience/ Bacon. - An/ Affectionate/ tender Mother," with beaded gold surround, the reverse inscribed, "J Pannill,/ To/ A Pannill," fitted with pin and pendant loop; the second, depicting female figure holding a flowered wreath above a pair of doves, with blue enamel and seed pearl surrounds, the reverse fitted with pin; and the third, depicting female mourner lamenting beside a covered urn, with paste surround, the reverse fitted with pin and pendant loop, all seemingly unmarked.
L: 1 5/8 in. (sight, largest)Provenance: The Collection of Irvin & Anita Schorsch.
The third: Stephen and Carol Huber, Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Christie's New York, Important American Furniture, Silver, Folk Art & Dec. Arts, June 21, 1995, Sale 8208, Lot 190.
There is historical record of Hobson/Bacon/Pannill families in Virginia and Georgia.