Description:

18th century fine southern teapot, Asa Blansett/Blanchard, Dumfries, VA & Lexington, KY, circa 1795, having solid heavy cast acorn finial on domed lid, scooped shoulder with gallery top, oval body, applied foot banding, and slightly concave bottom. Engraved script ''F'' on one side and variegated hardwood handle pinned into angled sockets. Four maker's marks ''AB'' having pellet in rectangular cartouches with inward facing point at top. Old solder around finial post. 6-1/2''h, 12-1/2''l, 4-1/4''w. Total approximate weight 29.8 troy oz. Provenance: Dr. Fouchet, Richmond, VA; James Graham & Sons, 1964; Christie's sale of The Collection of May and Howard Joynt, January 19 & 29, 1990, sold as by Archibald Barnett, MD; Robert Jackson, 1990. Exhibited: ''Silver in Maryland,'' Maryland Historical Society, 1983 (as by Archibald Barnett), and ''Southern Silver: An Exhibition of Silver Made in the South Prior to 1860,'' by David B. Warren and Texas Museum of Fine Arts-Houston, 1968, numbered exhibition sticker inside lid (as by Archibald Barnett). Note: This is the first time this teapot is being offered with its correct identification as by Asa Blansett/Blanchard. With the engraved initial ''F'' on the body, the pot may have had an early history with the Fouchet family of Virginia. On early Virginia silver, much more so than other states, there was an almost universal preference for single letter monogramming by the surname on silver.

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