ID 992564 
Lot 165  | A SET OF THREE GEORGE II SILVER CASTERS
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000 
MARK OF CHARLES KANDLER, LONDON, 1731
Vase-shaped and each on circular foot, engraved with a narrow band of trelliswork and rosettes, the body with moulded rib round the centre and applied with four vertical scrolling straps cast and chased with scrollwork and female masks above fruit and foliage garlands, the domed covers pierced and engraved with alternating panels of scrolls and trellis and with baluster finials, engraved with a crest with baron's coronet above, marked on bases and covers
One 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm.) high, the pair 7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
54 oz. 7 dwt. (1,691 gr.)
The crest is that of the Clifford of Chudleigh, almost certainly for Hugh Clifford, 3rd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1700-1732) of Ugbrooke Park, co. Devon.
Provenance
Hugh Clifford, 3rd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1700-1732) of Ugbrooke Park, co. Devon, by descent to,
Lewis Clifford, 12th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1889-1964),
Colonel the Right Honourable The Lord Clifford of Chudleigh O.B.E., A.D.C., D.L.; Christie's, London, 15 June 1966, lot 78 (£2,500 to Willson).
With Walter Willson, London, from 1966.
With Daniel Packer, London, November 2003.
Literature
M. Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, Oxford, 1985, p. 160, fig. 1.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
| Artist: | Charles Frederick Kandler | 
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork | 
| Medium: | Silver | 
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom | 
| Category: | Sugar Caster | 
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects | 
| Artist: | Charles Frederick Kandler | 
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork | 
| Medium: | Silver | 
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom | 
| Category: | Sugar Caster | 
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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