A Charles II or James II Silver Monteith, Anthony Nelme, London, 1679 or 1685
No reserve
Auction Closed
October 16, 06:35 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
sides with sloping lobes alternately matted, interior with arms between crossed foliate sprays, the rim applied with shells, marked on base, body below rim and detachable rim with maker's mark only
52 oz 5 dwt
1632.7 g
Diameter 12 in.
30.5 cm
Crichton Brothers, London, 1928
Anonymous gift in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour (1833-1914), March 2, 1933 to
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acc. no. 33.84
British Antiques Dealers' Association, London, 1928, p. 112, cat. no. 995 (lent by Crichton Brothers)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1933
Edwin J. Hipkiss, "The Charlotte Beebe Wilbour Collection of English Silver," Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, 31, no. 184, 1933, p. 28
Georgina E. Lee, British Silver Monteith Bowls, 1978, p. 24 & 69, fig. 13
Ellenor M. Alcorn, English Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Volume I, 1993, no. 96, p. 192, illus. (as 1693/94)
The arms are possibly those of Thompson or Callecote.
This monteith is illustrated in Lee's publication of British monteith bowls where it is noted as being part of the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The museum received another monteith by Anthony Nelme, 1705-06 in 2001, as a gift or the Alan and Simone Hartman and the Harriet J. Bradbury Fund, and presumably the present monteith was deaccessioned sometime afterward.