Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 25 Apr 2018
A Charles II silver two-handled porringer and cover
A Charles II silver two-handled porringer and cover,
maker's mark WC, London 1662,
the body and cover embossed and chased with flowers and foliage, serpent scroll handles, engraved with a coat-of-arms with plume mantling, the cover with spool-shaped finial with London Assay Office additions hallmarks for 2008 (case number 8566), height 19.5cm, approx. weight 31oz.
Provenance: Sotheby's, London, Private Sale, 7 Jan 2009, lot 2.
Sotheby's, London, Fine Silver and Vertu, 7 June 2007, lot 105.
The arms are possibly those of Innes.