Details
Each oval, on a spreading foot with bright-cut engraving, the rim with bright-cut scroll, the body with part-reeded border and handles, engraved with coat-of-arms within a shield, each marked on foot
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high, 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) wide over handles; 29 oz. 6 dwt. (911 gr.)
Provenance
With Black, Starr, Frost & Gorham, New York.
A wedding gift from DeVeaux Smith to David and Peggy Rockefeller.
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De Veaux O. Smith was a classmate of David Rockefeller at Harvard and later his personal assistant at Chase Manhattan Bank. He died at the Harvard Club in 1962. Smith who grew up next door to Thomas Edison in Llewellyn Park, N.J.

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