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Lenox, Inc.

Chocolate Pot,

Description

Maker

  • Lenox, Inc.

Title

Chocolate Pot

Medium

sterling silver, porcelain

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • porcelain,
  • sterling silver

Techniques

  • Porcelain,
  • sterling silver

Dimensions

19.7 x 20.3 cm (7 3/4 x 8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Marks: On the silver band at the foot of each piece: "STERLING" "2072" (each digit individually stamped), followed by a small oval die mark which is illegible and "ETATS UNIS." Glaze stamp in green on the underside of a script "L" with an open wreath surround - the mark Lenox used from 1906-1930. Although the donor was certain the porcelain was sent to Gorham to be overlaid, there is no Gorham mark on any of the pieces,a dn it is unlikely that they would have been marked.

Place

Place Made: Trenton; Place Made: New Jersey

Type

  • Ceramics

Credit

Gift of Ruth Buffington Turner in memory of her parents, Edward Buffington and Cora Warner Turner

Object Number

1997.76.2ab

About

Chocolate Pot

Marks: On the silver band at the foot of each piece: "STERLING" "2072" (each digit individually stamped), followed by a small oval die mark which is illegible and "ETATS UNIS." Glaze stamp in green on the underside of a script "L" with an open wreath surround - the mark Lenox used from 1906-1930. Although the donor was certain the porcelain was sent to Gorham to be overlaid, there is no Gorham mark on any of the pieces,a dn it is unlikely that they would have been marked.

Place Made: Trenton; Place Made: New Jersey

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Chocolate Pot with the accession number of 1997.76.2ab. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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