RARE & UNUSUAL SEVEN PIECE REED & BARTON SILVERPLATE LAVATORY/TOILETRY SET, WHICH INCLUDES A CHAMBERPOT WITH COVER,American, 1906. Reed & Barton Design #540. Set includes a washbowl/basin with baluster form water pitcher, a chamberpot with lift cover, a hot water pitcher, a cold water pitcher, covered soap dish with liner, a drinking cup and a toothbrush holder. Bright-polished vessels have applied scroll leaf and floral border. Monogrammed. Accompanied by letter from Reed & Barton dated 1974, and a copy of a receipt from the Louisiana State Museum dated 1935.
Estimate $750-1,000
This set was exhibited at the Cabildo, in New Orleans, which is Louisiana's most historic building and part of the Lousiana State Museum. Originally listed in the Reed & Barton catalog at a purchase price of $165 in 1906.
Wear commensurate with age. Minor denting to interior of chamber pot and washbowl basin. Otherwise very good.
