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Topic: Birth of rococo repousse?

Ulysses Dietz
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posted 04-20-2009 11:01 AM

Here attached are images of a teapot by Samuel Kirk, Baltimore, 1835-1843, and its marks. The research done for a show at the Maryland Historical Society in the mid-1980s, just when I bought it for Newark, suggests the date range. I acquired it specifically because (1) everyone thinks you have to have a piece of Kirk, and (2) it represents the beginning of repousse in a full-blown rococo mode in America.

If you check out the thread (English coffee pot 1825-26) I started in the British silver forum, you'll see an English teapot from 1825-1826 that gives a remarkable example of over the top repousse in the decade before it (re)appears in America.

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posted 04-21-2009 10:43 AM

The mark on your teapot is shown in an article entitled "Marks on Baltimore Silver 1814-1860: An Exploration" by Patrick M. Duggan in the "Book Silver in Maryland". (see Figure 7, page 29)

The author indicates that this mark was used between 1830-1843 while Samuel Steele was the assayer.

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