Lot 149: AN AMERICAN SILVER MOUNTED COCONUT CUP AND COVER, SAMUEL BROOKS, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1795

AN AMERICAN SILVER MOUNTED COCONUT CUP AND COVER, SAMUEL BROOKS, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1795 the spreading circular base bright-cut and engraved with swags and running flowers, supporting a coconut engraved with four roundels enclosing script initials EM, a palm tree, a basket of flowers and a heart beneath a key held in the mouths of two doves and flanked by two trees, all surrounded by floral swags, the domed silver cover with ribbon-tied swags and scrolls, urn form coconut final with silver band marked twice on base rim BROOKS in shaped punch with serrated top height 8 1/2 in. 21.6cm

Christie's, New York, 20 January 2005, lot 137