AN EARLY CHARLES II SILVER TWO-HANDLED CAUDLE CUP AND COVER, LONDON, 1660
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AN EARLY CHARLES II SILVER TWO-HANDLED CAUDLE CUP AND COVER, LONDON, 1660
embossed and chased with flowers and fruit, female caryatid handles, urn finial
fully marked on rim of body and flange of cover, maker's mark RD over fleur-de-lys in shield (revised Jackson 1989 p. 124, the mark noted on a two-handled cup and cover)
24 oz 10 dwt
765 g
length over handles 8½ in.
21.5 cm
In David M. Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, 2017, there are three candidates for this mark, of which the most likely is Richard Dransfield, free 1661, died before 1692.