AN AMERICAN SILVER CENTERPIECE BOWL MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Dramatically modeled as a curling crashing wave draped in garlands of waterlilies and cattails, one end applied with a seated classical nude female holding an orb, the other with two putto holding aloft a sheet as if a sail, with two further putto to the sides, raised on a base cast and chased with two large dolphins in a frothy sea with a putto to the front and a mermaid to the rear holding on to the curling tails of the dolphins, marked on base rim and numbered 2085
141⁄4 in. (36.2 cm.) long
172 oz. 8 dwt. (5,362 gr.)

Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 15 January 1999, lot 50.