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Vander Sande Collection | Session I | March 12, 2025

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Featuring fine and rare Pilgrim century furniture, including a paneled oak valuables cabinet from the Mason-Messinger shop; works by North Shore cabinetmakers and joiners such as James Symonds of Salem, Thomas Chase of Newbury, and Thomas Dennis of Ipswich; Boston furniture including a Japanned Queen Anne high chest; decorative arts including 17th-century British ceramics, Nottingham carved mugs, Wrotham, Elers, Ralph Simpson, British Delft, Staffordshire, Westerwald, needlework jewelry caskets, mezzotints, and a rare Boston shell-framed coat of arms.
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Lot 690

Rare Elers Brothers Staffordshire Dry Redware Covered Milk/Teapot

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Starting Bid
$1,500

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late 17th/early 18th century, pear form jug with applied floral sprigging, silver collar and chain at loop handle, attaching conforming lid, 6-1/4 x 4-1/2 x 3-1/2 in.

Provenance: E & H Manners, London, sold June 25, 2016 for £6,200; Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

Note: For a similar example, see John and David Elers and their Contemporaries by Gordon Elliott, figure 4. 

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E & H Manners, London, sold June 25, 2016 for £6,200; Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

minor surface dirt, some scattered craters and other small firing anomalies, scattered small chips to rim and spout, tarnishing to silver elements, hairline crack to lid, small area of restoration to inner lid rim, some substance accretion/varnish(?) to foot ring