ID 1360059
Lot 5 | AN EDWARD VI PARCEL-GILT SILVER COMMUNION CUP
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
MAKER'S MARK RD CONJOINED IN SHIELD SHAPED PUNCH, PROBABLY FOR ROBERT DANBE OR DAUBE, LONDON, 1552
On stepped domed circular foot with two bands of gilt dentilation, the spool-form stem with small gilt knop, rising to a flaring large bowl, applied at lower body with another band of dentilation, gilt rim and interior, marked on side below gilt rim
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high
14 oz. 8 dwt. (445 gr.)
Provenance
With 'Thomas's', possibly F. B. Thomas Ltd., retail silversmiths, London, by 1883, as recorded by Cripps, op. cit., p. 368.
Sir Charles Wakefield, 1st Bt. of Saltwood, 1st Viscount Wakefield of Hythe (1859-1941), inventor, businessman and collector, by 1920, by descent to his wife,
Sarah Frances, Viscountess Wakefield (1858-1950), daughter of James Graham,
The Rt. Hon. Viscountess Wakefield; Christie's, London, 4 February 1944, lot 88 (£330 to Crouch).
The Alan Burr Collection, by 1957, when published by Oman, op. cit. p. 210.
With N. Bloom Ltd., London, 1971.
Acquired from S.J. Phillips Ltd., London, 10 August 1977.
Literature
W. J. Cripps, Old English plate, ecclesiastical, decorative, and domestic : its makers and marks, London, 1899, p. 368.
E. A. Jones, ‘Old Silver in the Collection of Sir Charles Wakefield, Bt., C.B.E.’, The Connoisseur, vol. LVI, 1920, p. 153, illustrated.
C. Oman, English Church Plate, 597-1830, Oxford, 1957, appendix II, p. 310.
The Connoisseur, advertisement, vol. 178, issue 715, September, 1971, p. 53.
G. Norman, 'Investing in Silver', The Illustrated London News, vol. 260, issue 688, 29 July 1972, p. 65, illustrated.
I. Pickford ed., Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks of England, Scotland & Ireland, Woodbridge, Suffolk,1989, p. 92.
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque: Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 4, pp. 68-69.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Cups |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Cups |
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