Property of a gentleman
A pair of Scottish George II silver communion cups, David Warnock, Glasgow, 1756
Lot Closed
November 13, 02:47 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a gentleman
A pair of Scottish George II silver communion cups
David Warnock, Glasgow
1756
plain large vase-shaped flared bowls on reeded baluster stems and circular welled bases
21cm, 8 1/4 in high
1047gr, 33oz 13dwt
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Probably the Marquis of Breadalbane 1892
Ian Pickford ed., Jackson's Silver & gold marks of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1989 edition, Woodbridge, p. 569.
A set of four identical communion cups of this size, also David Warnock, Glasgow, 1756, were the property of Marquis of Breadalbane in 1892. See: The Rev. Thomas Burns, Old Scottish Communion Plate, Edinburgh, 1892, pp. 376/377. One communion cup matching the description was sold Bonhams, April 27, 2017