Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 24th April 2018
Lot 434
A James II silver sugar caster
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £5000
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Description
A James II silver sugar caster,
maker's mark of C over W, possibly for Caleb Westbrook, London 1686,
lighthouse form, the bayonet fitting cover with pierced decoration and applied with cut-card decoration, knop finial, rope-work borders, on a raised circular foot with pierced decoration, height 19.5cm, approx. weight 11oz.
For an illustration and write up of this maker's mark see: Mitchell, D., Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, The Boydell Press, 2017, pages 264-5.