Ball, Tompkins & Black Sterling Silver

Pair of Ball, Tompkins & Black coin silver ewers circa 1849. Each baluster form with applied bands of repeat palmettes, C-scroll handles, one engraved: "Presented by the Stockholders of The Bank of Auburn to Cornelius Cuyler, Esquire, their late President, As an expression of their entire confidence in the integrity and ability with which, as an officer of the Institution, he has rendered gratuitous service during a period of more than thirty years, June 11th, 1849"; the other "The Bank of Auburn to Cornelius Cuyler, Esquire, June 11th, 1849". Height is 13 3/4 inches to the top of the handle and 8 3/4'' from handle to spout. Bearing hallmarks as shown. C. Cuyler was born in Albany in 1783. His ancestors were of the earliest and of the most respectable settlers in the colony , having moved from Leyden, Holland, about the year 1650. They were men of education and of wealth. Successors to Marquand & Co, Ball, Tompkins & Black retailed silver in New York from the early 19th century onward. While their original store was at Broadway 247, they relocated in the 1860s to be across the street from their rival Tiffany. Tompkins left the company and it continued to operate under the name of Ball & Black. Sold with pair of coin silver Gorham goblets...