A Pair of George II Silver Sauce Boats, Isaac Duke, London, 1743
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October 16, 04:16 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
the bowls applied with rococo cartouches and sprays of berried foliage linked by swags of flowers to a putto mask below the spout, bold open-mouthed wyvern handles, the foot cast with a river god, rabbit, lizard, mushrooms and shells and foliage, marked on bases
60 oz
1866.2 g
length 8 5/8 in.
21.9 cm
The same foot appears on a pair of sauce boats by Frederick Kandler, i740, in the Ashmolean Museum, see Timothy Schroder, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean Museum, 2009, vol. I, no.150, p. 388. A similar pair to the present lot was sold Christie’s, February 25 1920, lot 40, reproduced op. cit. p. 400, while a plainer pair by Duke show the same wyvern handles, no. 155, p. 400. A pair of sauce boats by Frederick Kandler 1742, of which one is the Metropolitan Museum, the other in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, show similar handles, though differently chased, see Christopher Hartop, The Huguenot Legacy, 1996, no. 42, pp. 208-211.