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Lot 329
8 June 2005, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,000 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA fine Barr, Flight and Barr coffee can and saucer by Samuel Smith
the cylindrical can with a delicate gilded ring handle, finely painted with three shells and seaweed, the saucer with a sea urchin, a mussel, two periwinkles and another shell, also with seaweed, within gilt-edged rectangular panels, reserved on a grey marbled ground, saucer 13cm., incised B marks, script marks referring to Royal patronage (fine scratch to painting on saucer) (2)
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The attribution to Samuel Smith is based on a comparison with the painting on the important documentary jug inscribed S.S-March 1807, sold in these rooms on 16 December 1998, lot 360. The arrangement of the shells and painting of the cowrie on the coffee can bear a particular resemblance to that found on the jug.
