Live Auction 16270The Collector: English and European 18th and 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
A WILLIAM III SILVER TAZZA
Lot 210 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM KELLY SIMPSON

A WILLIAM III SILVER TAZZA

MARK OF WILLIAM GIBSON, LONDON, 1697

Closed23 October 2018

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A WILLIAM III SILVER TAZZA
MARK OF WILLIAM GIBSON, LONDON, 1697
Circular, on trumpet-form foot, with chased gadrooned borders, surface engraved with a coat-of-arms in foliate cartouche, marked to field and underside of foot
10 3/8 in. (26.8 cm.) diameter
19 oz. 10 dwt. (606 gr.)

Probably Sir james Oxenden, 2nd Bt.
Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 740 Park Ave., New York, 1960.

Specialist note

The arms are those of Oxenden, baronets, almost certainly for Sir James Oxenden, 2nd Bt. (1641-1708), who succeeded his father in 1686.