ID 1360128
Los 20 | A JAMES I SILVER-GILT STEEPLE CUP AND COVER
Schätzwert
$ 40 000 – 60 000
MAKER'S MARK A BUNCH OF GRAPES IN SHIELD-SHAPED PUNCH , LONDON, 1604
On waisted domed circular base with tongue-and-dart and lobed bands, flat-chased above with vertical alternating acanthus and water leaves, rising to a triple-knopped stem and deep spreading bowl flat-chased with a broad band of scrolling grapevine above a band of linked vertical lobes, all on a matted ground, on one side with a shield pricked with impaled coats-of-arms and with pricked initials I.G.E.G. above at rim, with a later engraved inscription under the foot, the domed cover with conforming decoration and prick engraved with initials I.C. (I.G.?) twice and HN conjoined, surmounted by a triangular steeple supported on three cast openwork scrolls headed by grotesque masks, the whole engraved with a pattern of chevrons and surmounted by a crescent, fully marked on rim and cover
15 ¼ in. (38.7 cm.) high
19 oz. 16 dwt. (616 gr.)
The later inscription under the foot reads Elizabeth Montagu Duchess Dowr. of Buccleuch & Queensberry 1817.
Provenance
Possibly for James Gray, second son of Patrick, 6th Lord Gray (d. 1611).
Elizabeth Montagu, Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry (1743-1827) by 1817, then to her grandson,
Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott (1806-1884), later 5th Duke of Buccleuch, then by descent to his second son,
Henry John Montagu Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (1832-1905),
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, formerly belonging to Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry; Christie's, London, 26 May 1905, lot 62.
The Collection of Sydney Loder, London by 1929.
Mrs. Sydney Loder; Christie's, London, 13 August 1941, lot 67.
Rex Beaumont (1914-1988), Belvedere House, County Westmeath, Ireland.
Rex Beaumont Esq., Removed from Belvedere House, Ireland; Christie's, London, 2 December 1964, lot 30.
Acquired from Frank Partridge Ltd., London, 3 December 1984.
Literature
R. Alfred Jones, 'Some Recent Sales of Silver', Country Life, 4 September 1962, p. 462, fig. 2.
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 15, pp. 106-107.
Exhibited
London, Seaford House, 1929, cat. 99 (lent by Sydney Loder).
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| Material: | Silber |
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