Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 2 - 26th January 2022 - 26th January 2022

Lot 904

A Charles II silver beaker

Estimate £3,000 - £4,000 | Hammer £5500

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Description

A Charles II silver beaker,

possibly by Richard Dransfield, London 1665,

tapering circular form, embossed foliate decoration, with feint prick dotting 'S.P A.K?' and the date '1670', on a circular foot, height 8.8cm, approx. weight 3.9oz.

For maker's mark and a similar example in The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths Collection, see Mitchell, D., Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, The Boydell Press, 2017 pages 448/449.