Lot 591
  • 591

Two matching pairs of Dutch silver table candelsticks, one pair by Johannes du Vignon III, The Hague, 1715, the other pair unmarked

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • SILVER
  • 24cm, 9in high
each engraved in the 19th century with the same crest, (probably Scottish) below motto Fideliter, all with scratch weights in ounces and pennyweights 25=10, 24=14, 24=3 and 23=9

Provenance

Joseph M. Mopurgo, Amsterdam

Exhibited

Haags Zilver uit vijf eeuwen, Haags Gemeeentmuseum, 20 June-27 August 1967, no. 120

Literature

J. W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver, Wrought Plate of North and South Holland, The Hague, 1958, vol II, fig. 490

 

Catalogue Note

Frederiks illustrates one of the candlesticks, and calls it 'One of a set of four... of outstanding quality...'