A JAMES II SILVER CORDIAL POT

Lot 189
07.07.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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£ 15 000
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ID 992621
Lot 189 | A JAMES II SILVER CORDIAL POT
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 25 000
A JAMES II SILVER CORDIAL POT

MARK OF THOMAS CORY, LONDON, 1686

Pear shaped on three scroll and pad feet with cut-card rosette terminals, the turned wood side handle issuing from a cut-card calyx, the hinged cover with baluster finial, later engraved with a crest, marked on base and cover

4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm.) high

gross weight 7 oz. 4 dwt. (233 gr.)

The crest is that of Jackson of Kilwoldsgrove, co. York.





Provenance

Ernest Samuel Makower F.S.A. (1876-1946), of Holmwood, Binfield Heath, Henley, a trustee of the London Museum, then to his widow,

Rachel Makower (d.1960),

The late Mrs. R. Makower; Sotheby's, London, 16 March 1961, lot 100.

Mrs. R. M. Robertson, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada,

The Robertson Collection; Christie's, New York, 27 October 1987, lot 446.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 July 1995, lot 135.



Exhibited

London, 25 Park Lane, W.1., The Loan Exhibition of Old English Plate, 1929, no. 94, pl. XIX, lent by E. S. Makower Esq.



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