A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER WAITERS

Lot 131
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£ 20 000
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Lot 131 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER WAITERS
Valeur estimée
£ 20 000 – 30 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER WAITERS

MARK OF CHRISTIAN HILLAN, LONDON, 1742

Each shaped circular, on four scroll feet formed as a bunch of grapes, a cloud, and an acanthus leaf, the rim cast and chased with three putto masks, the first grasping thunderbolts, the second surrounded by grapes and the third amidst clouds, the fourth side with a conch shell, all within rocaille and scrolls, engraved in the centre with a coat-of-arms within an asymmetrical foliate scroll cartouche, marked under bases

7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) wide

27 oz. 6 dwt. (849 gr.)

The arms are those of Clifford of Perrystone Court, Foy, co. Hereford.





Provenance

A Nobleman; Christie's, London, 10 December 1980, lot 144.

A Collector; Christie's, New York, 28 April 1992, lot 237.



Literature

U. Vitali, 'Retooling for the rococo: assembling the complex network of talents, skill and language to express the new style', Rococo silver in England and its colonies, The Silver Society Journal, 2004, no. 20, pp. 83-85, figs. 97, 135.1 and 135.2.

E. Alcorn, Beyond the Maker's Mark, Paul de Lamerie Silver in the Cahn Collection, Cambridge, 2006, p. 30-31, fig. 24.



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