Original drawing of a Tea Pot heightened in white

13 x 10-/12 (image size). Matted. 13 x 10-/12 (image size). George R. Benda worked in New York at the end of the 19th century; he specialized in designs in silver, many for the noted firm of Black, Starr & Frost - Gorham, and other ornamental metalwork, such as this fine example.