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A CHARLES II AND GEORGE I EIGHT-PIECE SILVER-GILT COMMUNION SERVICE

Lot 41
06.02.2025 00:00UTC -04:00
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Starting price
$ 80 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1360183
Lot 41 | A CHARLES II AND GEORGE I EIGHT-PIECE SILVER-GILT COMMUNION SERVICE
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
A CHARLES II AND GEORGE I EIGHT-PIECE SILVER-GILT COMMUNION SERVICE
THE CUPS MAKER'S MARK RS IN A SHIELD SHAPED PUNCH, LONDON, 1649, THE FLAGONS AND PATENS MARK OF WILLIAM DARKER, LONDON, 1726
Comprising:
Three communion cups of plain form, on broad trumpet foot, with deep slightly flaring bowl, the bases engraved St. Martins in-the-Fieldes Aprill ye 6th Anno 1650, each with scratch weight and numbered 5, 6 and 7 respectively, fully marked near upper rims, the bases struck with lion passant

Three patens each with molded rim and raised on trumpet foot, the underside of bases engraved St Martins in the Fields Octbr ye 26 : 1726, each with scratch weight and numbered 5, 6 and 7 respectively, fully marked on surfaces

Two flagons of tapered cylindrical form on domed bases, scroll handles with baluster drop, underside of base rims engraved Mrs Eliz Enderson to St. Martins in the Fields 1649 New Wrought Oct 20. 1726. Walter Turner William House Church Warden, both with scratch weight and numbered 2 and 3 respectively, fully marked near upper rim right of handle, flange of cover with maker's mark and lion passant, handle with maker's mark
flagons: 14 ½ in. (36.8 cm.) and 14 ¾ in. (37.5 cm.) high
cups: 9 ½ in. (24.1 cm.), 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) and 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) high
patens: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) diameter (all)
208 oz. 15 dwt. (6,492 gr.)




Provenance

The Church of St. Martin-In-The-Fields, London.
The Vicar and Churchwardens of St. Martins-in-the- Fields; Sotheby's, London, 17 May 1973, lots 114 (the flagons) and 122 (the chalices and patens).
Acquired from S.J. Phillips Ltd., London, September 1973 (the chalices and patens) and July 2007 (the flagons).



Literature

T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London. 2012, cat. no. 32, pp. 157-163.



Exhibited

London Museum, Kensington Palace (the flagons, two chalices and two patens).
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Silver
Place of origin:England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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