Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics
Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics
Property from an Important Southern Collection
A RARE WILLIAM III SILVER CADDINET OR INKSTAND, ANTHONY NELME, LONDON, 1696-97
Lot Closed
April 22, 03:45 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Southern Collection
A RARE WILLIAM III SILVER CADDINET OR INKSTAND, ANTHONY NELME, LONDON, 1696-97
on four dolphin-head feet, with molded rims, mounted on the back with a long box with hinged cover and in the front with a small box with pull-off cover, the covers applied with cut-cardwork
marked inside each box and on covers
29 oz 5 dwt
914 g
length 9¼ in.
23.5 cm
Edith Kane Baker, New York
Sotheby's New York, Oct. 28-29, 1977, lot 610
Garrard & Co., Ltd., London, March 1981
The identity of this piece is not certain. While it relates to the few caddinets known, the flat panel in front is not large enough to receive a plate or napkin and is mounted with a matching box marked by Nelme on its base [with later cover].