An Unusual American Silver Teapot engraved with hunters in a landscape, Jacob Hurd Boston, circa 1750 of inverted pear form on stepped circular foot and with partly faceted S-form spout, engraved on one side with contemporary arms in a rococo shellwork cartouche surrounded by scrolling foliage and panels of trellis, all surmounted by a fox head crest, opposite side with script initial P, the top of the pot and hinged cover finely engraved with a landscape of a village and fox hunting scenes including two houses, ducks swimming in a pond, a farmer smoking a pipe, running stags, boars, dogs, and two hunters on horseback pursuing foxes, one hunter with horn proclaiming: " the hounds are all out a ho ho ho", topped by a wood knop finial with engraved silver bud, marked twice on base HURD in rectangle (Kane mark D) and scratched ?Nillis 20 oz "3 " 0 length 9 3/4 in. 24.7cm 21oz 12dwt gross 641g
An Unusual American Silver Teapot engraved with hunters in a landscape, Jacob Hurd Boston, circa 1750 of inverted pear form on stepped circular foot and with partly faceted S-form spout, engraved on one side with contemporary arms in a rococo shellwork cartouche surrounded by scrolling foliage and panels of trellis, all surmounted by a fox head crest, opposite side with script initial P, the top of the pot and hinged cover finely engraved with a landscape of a village and fox hunting scenes including two houses, ducks swimming in a pond, a farmer smoking a pipe, running stags, boars, dogs, and two hunters on horseback pursuing foxes, one hunter with horn proclaiming: " the hounds are all out a ho ho ho", topped by a wood knop finial with engraved silver bud, marked twice on base HURD in rectangle (Kane mark D) and scratched ?Nillis 20 oz "3 " 0 length 9 3/4 in. 24.7cm 21oz 12dwt gross 641g
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