European Silver, Furniture and Ceramics

European Silver, Furniture and Ceramics

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Property from a Canadian Private Collection

A George II Silver Cake Basket, William Cripps, London, 1746

Lot Closed

October 20, 06:33 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Canadian Private Collection


A George II Silver Cake Basket, William Cripps, London, 1746

pierced with panels of diaper and rococo scrolls, the shaped handle springing from two masks and decorated with grapevine

fully marked, underside with scratch weight 65=15 with the 5 scratched out


64 oz 5 dwt

2003 g

length 15 in.

38 cm

Sotheby's London July, 1990 lot 372
Sotheby's New York, March 31, 2011, lot 585
The arms are those of Woodhouse impaling Hoskyns.