QUEEN ANNE SILVER MONTIETH, ALICE SHEEN, LONDON, 1705/1707

Both sides engraved with arms in baroque cartouches, lion's mask and bail handles, detachable scalloped rim applied with putto heads, the bowl marked on body and handles by Alice Sheen, 1705, the rim with alterations, maker's mark not clear, London, 1707.

Andrea Leff;
Sotheby's, New York, October 19, 1999, lot 268.

Georgina E. Lee, British Silver Monteith Bowls, p. 90, no. 203, where the maker of the rim is listed as Richard Syng and the arms are those of Moray.

dent to foot rim, conforming dents below bail handles; detachable rim with some repairs and splits to flange; otherwise good
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The arms are possibly those of Kempson or Denton.