Lot 872
  • 872

A WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER CHINOISERIE TWO-HANDLED CUP, MAKER'S MARK YT, POSSIBLY FOR BENJAMIN YATES, LONDON, 1689 |

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on base, maker's mark YT possibly for Benjamin Yates (Revised Jackson, 1989, p. 142) 
  • Length over handles 5 5/8 in.
  • 14.4 cm.
with flared rim, the body flat-chased with exotic birds, plants, and clouds surrounding cartouches, pricked on one side Anne Pelter, the other with date 1689 surrounded by stars, scroll handles

Provenance

Tessier's, London, May 1993;
Charles L. Poor, Washington, D.C.;
Early English Silver from the Collection of the Late Charles L. Poor, Sotheby's New York, October 26, 2005, lot 95;
Firestone & Parson, Boston, December 2005;
Vogel Collection no. 763.

Condition

good throughout
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Catalogue Note

Jackson lists two communion cups and patens by this maker (Revised Jackson, 1989, p. 142).