A pair of Queen Anne silver-gilt two-handled bowls and covers, maker's mark only, Pierre Platel of London, circa 1710

applied ovolo borders and strapwork, the lips and detachable covers engraved with a later crest (a hand holding a heart) and earl's coronet, the undersides of the bowls with pricked scratch weights '19 ~ 15' and '19 ~ 17', both undersides and one lid scratched in an old hand with the number 3519

Thomas Hugh Cobb, Sotheby's, London, 19 October 1944, lot 70 (Crichton Brothers, £150)
The property of a gentleman, Christie's, London, 9 October 1957, p. 154
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 6 June 1980, lot 49

English Silver, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, 1966, cat. No. 16
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 1958-1980, loan no. L58.4.5.6

Antiques Magazine, New York, May 1964
Antiques Magazine, New York, December 1971

These are very imposing items. The crests are later, probably early 19th century. There is one small area on one body where there is a flaw in the gilding. Evidence of small solder repairs to one of the handles, and a small crack in the solder in one of the other handles. Loss of some gilding to rim of one body, and in same area by the crest there is thiness. In spite of this, they are very attractive and rare. For further queries please contact the Silver department directly on +44(0)207.293.5100
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The scratched number 3519 on these bowls and covers suggest that they may have been at one time in the stock of Rundell, Bridge & Rundell.

T.H. Cobb was sometime partner in Janson, Cobb, Pearson & Co, solicitors of 22 College Hill, London, from which firm he retired on 1 December 1929. Among the bequests he made in 1944 to the Victoria & Albert Museum were the portrait of an unknown man, aged 22, by Nicholas Hilliard, 1597, and a silver chocolate pot, John Fawdery, London, 1714.