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Dessert Stand

Stands: 1793–95. Liners: about 1800.
Medium/TechniqueSilver, lead glass
Dimensions10.4 x 12.2 x 9 cm (4 1/8 x 4 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.2294a-b
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ClassificationsSilver
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InscriptionsSCRATCHES: inside one leg, an illegible, cypher-like design is pricked
ProvenanceBy 1952, with C. & H. Wartski, London; July 31, 1952, sold by C. & H. Wartski to Forsyth Wickes, New York and Newport, RI (d. 1964); 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)