Live Auction 1546The Raglan Collection: Wellington, Waterloo and The Crimea And Works of Art from the Collection of the Marquesses of Londonderry
A CHARLES II SILVER-GILT PERFUME OR INCENSE BURNER
Lot 456

A CHARLES II SILVER-GILT PERFUME OR INCENSE BURNER

APPARENTLY UNMARKED, CIRCA 1680, WITH 19TH CENTURY ADDITIONS

Closed23 May 2014

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A CHARLES II SILVER-GILT PERFUME OR INCENSE BURNER
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, CIRCA 1680, WITH 19TH CENTURY ADDITIONS
On three scroll feet, the gourd-shaped body cast, pierced and chased with scrolling foliage and acanthus, and later applied with floral piercing, applied underneath with acanthus bud finial, the spool-shaped neck with bayonet fitting, corded wire-work borders and two scroll handles, with detachable cover
16.1/2 in. (42 cm.) high
94 oz. 4 dwt. (2,930 gr.)

Specialist note

Whilst Dutch examples are known, for example, one in the Portland Collection (see E. A. Jones, Catalogue of Plate Belonging to the Duke of Portland, K.G., G.C.V.O., London, 1935, p. 87, pl. xii), which was made by Nicholaas Loockemans, The Hague, 1678, the more likely origin for the present example is London. A very similar example is in the collection of the Duke of Rutland is hallmarked for London, 1677 (see C. Jackson, An Illustrated History of English Plate, London, 1911, vol. I, p. 245, fig. 255), and another, now in the collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was formerly in the Untermeyer collection, with maker's mark TL only (museum accession no. 68.141.232a–c, see Y. Hackenbroch, English and Other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, no. 56, p. 32).