Lot 869
  • 869

A PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY CAST SILVER SALTS, LONDON, 1693 |

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on bases, maker's mark not clear possibly I C crowned (Revised Jackson, 1989, p. 142)
  • Diameter 2 7/8 in.
  • 7.3 cm.
each of boldly gadrooned circular form with gilt well and molded foot

Provenance

S.J. Phillips, London, August 1977;
Vogel Collection no. 284.

Condition

maker's mark not clear, worn or deleted hog crests on the sides
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Catalogue Note

A similar pair by Pierre Harache I, 1694, is illustrated in Vanessa Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, no. 630 p. 159, sold Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1969, lot 212. David M. Mitchell discusses this mark and candidates in Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, pp. 353-54.