Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 24th April 2018
Lot 435
A pair of James II silver candlesticks
Estimate £10,000 - £15,000 | Hammer £62000
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Description
A pair of James II silver candlesticks,
maker's mark of TD in a script monogram, probably for Thomas Dymock, London 1685,
fluted columns, shaped drip pans, on a raised spread octagonal foot, engraved with an armorial within feather mantling, height 24.5cm, approx. weight 32.6oz. (2)
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 517-8.
The Shield is recorded for Burnell of Essex impaling Gybbons of Norfolk impaled by another.