comprising a bowl, liner and cover, the circular bowl with gadroon edged everted rim and ribbed spreading foot, the liner pellet pierced in a star pattern, the domed cover with two cartouches, one engraved with scrolling initials 'GWR & WCR / to / JMW', the other 'JMW / to / MCH / 1867', with surrounding chasing of acorn laden trailing oak branches beneath a cast leafy acorn finial, underside stamped 'LINCOLN & FOSS / PURE COIN BOSTON' and with gothic 'L' and eagle marks, 17.5cm diameter, 509g

Provenance: Dr Jonathan Mason Warren ('JMW', 1811-1867); gifted in 1867 to his daughter, Mary Crowninshield [Warren] Hammond ('MCH', 1841-1890), who had married Samuel Hammond IV (1835-1896) in 1858; thence by family descent to the vendor.

The Warren, Crowninshield and Hammond families may be seen as exemplars of what came to be called 'Boston Brahmins'. A plastic and reconstructive surgeon, distinguished for the first use of Rhinoplasty in the United States, Jonathan Mason Warren was born and died at 2 Park Street, Boston, marrying Annie Caspar Crowninshield in 1839. Typifying 19th century Boston's closely-knit Beacon Hill/Back Bay society, his daughter Mary and her husband Samuel Hammond lived at 116 Beacon Street. Opposite lived another daughter, Rosamund, married to Samuel's first cousin, Charles Hammond Gibson, at 137 Beacon Street, now the Gibson House Museum.

See the following lot for another piece of Hammond family silver with Beacon Street associations.