ID 1386944
Lot 127 | ENCRIER EN ARGENT D'ÉPOQUE CHARLES II
Estimate value
€ 10 000 – 15 000
Poinçon de Maître-Orfèvre TH et ancre attribué à Thomas Hughes, Londres, 1670
Rectangulaire uni sur quatre pied-griffes, le couvercle à charnière à doucine gravée d'armoiries encadrées de plumes enrubannées, l'intérieur agrémenté de quatre compartiments dont deux pour l'encre et le sable avec des doublures en verre blanc, poinçons sur le bord du couvercle et dans le fond: ville, titre, lettre-date (N) et maître-orfèvre
L. 26 cm. (10 ¼ in.)
1151 gr. (37 oz.)
Les armoiries sont celles de Walrond, avec le quartier Mompesson, pour Sir William Walrond (1630-1689) de Bradfield, dans le comté de Devon, et son épouse Dinah, fille et co-héritière de Sir Thomas Mompesson.
Provenance
A Gentleman; Christie's, Londres, 26 juin 1974, lot 125.
Vente Christie's, Londres, 23 juin 1976, lot 80.
Axel Vervoordt, 1986.
Collection Onzea-Govaerts, Belgique.
Literature
D. Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, Their Lives and Their Marks, Woodbridge, 2017, p. 533.
Further details
A JAMES II SILVER TREASURY INKSTAND
MAKER'S MARK TH ANCHOR IN BETWEEN POSSIBLY FOR THOMAS HUGHES, LONDON, 1670
Plain rectangular on four ball and claw feet, the cover engraved with a coat-of-arms framed by plumes, the inside with four compartments and two glass inkpots, fully marked
The arms are those of Walrond quartering Mompesson, for Sir William Walrond (1630-1689) of Bradfield, county Devon and his wife Dinah, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Mompesson.
In the 1974 sale the inkstand was preceded by a pair of matching Charles II snuffers and stand with the maker's mark BB, a crescent beneath. The stand was engraved with the same arms; the snuffers with the crest of a heraldic typger sejant for Walrond. A pair a tazze, with maker's mark TH an anchor between, 1670, also engraved with the same quartered arms were sold by the executors of the late William George Hood Walrond, 2nd Baron Waleran (1905-1966) and the Bradfield Trustees, at Christie's London on 3 December 1969, lot 112. The reappeared on the market at Sotheby's Paris, 25 November 2010, lot 347.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Inkstand |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Inkstand |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
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