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  Whiting / Late 19th Century Sterling dish with pomegranate motif c. 1890

  WHITING MANUFACTURING CO. No. Attleboro, MA

  Footed dish with pomegranate motif c. 1890

  Sterling silver with a hand hammered honey comb surface, applied pomegranate and pomegranate blossom motif

  Marks: Whiting logo (lion with W in oval (manufacturer’s insignia)), STERLING, 757, C

  L: 5″ x D: 4″

  In 1840 Albert Tifft and William Whiting started their business in No. Attleboro MA as a jewelry manufacturing company and then in 1866 created the Whiting Mfg. Co. and expanded production into small hollowware as well. The Gorham Company bought Whiting in 1926 and all operations were then moved to Providence, R.I.

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  Gorham Sterling “Exotic” Tea and Coffee Set in Original Presentation Chest 1880

  GORHAM MFG. CO SILVERSMITHS   Providence, RI

  “Exotic” tea and coffee set in original Gorham presentation chest   1880

  Sterling silver 5-piece service with “butler” finish, bright-cut chasing and repoussé surface in the Far Eastern exotic style with elephant trunk spouts and handle forms, tent-like splayed lids, interior gilding, engraved conjoined initials, bone spacers in the original deep teal velvet-covered presentation chest with hot pink silk- satin interior

  Marks:  Gorham marks, STERLING, 1560, “M” (date mark for 1880)
  Lid of case interior stamped in gold:  Gorham Mfg. Co., Sterling Silver, Union Square, NY

  Coffeepot: H: 5 3/4” handle-to-spout: 9 1/4” (length);
  teapot: H: 4”;
  sugar w/ lid: H: 4”;
  waste bowl: H: 2 1/2”;
  cream: H:  2 3/4”;
  chest:  H: 7” x W: 21” x D: 15”

  For related pieces and further information see:  Gorham Silver 1831-1981, Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., Chapter 6, “Innovation and Fantasy”, p. 94-121 (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1982); In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, Chapter 8,“Metalwork: An Eclectic Aesthetic” by David Hanks, p.253-294 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Rizzoli, 1987); Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor, Charles L. Venable, Chapter 6, “Consumption and Design” p.123-204, (New York: Dallas Museum of Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995).