Silver & Collectors' Items - Day 1 and Day 2 - 16th July 2013
Lot 1308
Two George II silver tea caddies and a George II silver sugar bowl and cover
Estimate £4,000 - £6,000 | Hammer £3000
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Description
Two George II silver tea caddies and a George II silver sugar bowl and cover,
the caddies, London 1728 and 1730, maker's mark worn, I?, the sugar bowl over stamped with maker's mark of James Delas, London 1738,
the caddies of oval form, slide-off bases, domed pull-off covers with knop finials, the sugar bowl of baluster form, pull-off cover with a knop finial, on a raised circular foot, engraved with a cipher, in a later fitted rosewood caddy, velvet lined, on four bun feet, height of caddy 13.5cm, height of sugar bowl 13.8cm, approx. weight 29oz. (3)
Provenance: Crichel House, Dorset, sold by order of Braganza Investments Limited.