Pair of Durgin Sterling Silver Peacock Bon-bon Dishes, Concord, NH, c. 1920

These fun dishes are wonderful decorations for your dining or side tables. They are figural candy dishes with lovely details. 

The elegant birds stand proudly with their trailing plumage forming the dishes. Each of the dishes is fluted and has two attached ball feet on its underside, upon which the tails rest.

Literature: An identical example is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, see: Beatrice B. Garvan and David L. Barquist with Elisabeth R. Agro, American Silver in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Volume 1, Makers A-F, (In association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2018), p. 384.

These elegant dishes are marked with Durgin's trademark and 'GORHAM/ STERLING/ 3.' They measure 3.75 inches tall by 5.25 inches wide by 9.5 inches long, weigh a combined 16.40 troy ounces, and are in excellent antique condition.