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Lot 193 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A RARE GEORGE II SILVER MECHANICAL DISH CROSS
MARK OF JAMES SHRUDER, LONDON, 1739
Closed17 May 2011
Price Realised
USD 52,500
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Specialist note
The crest is probably that of Bugge.
This massive and extremely rare dish cross is far more unusual than the typical X-form dish cross with central spirit burner used to keep food warm at the Georgian table or sideboard. Schruder's ingenious design features three bar supports fitted with pins that engage with a geared column within the heater base, so that as one leg extends or retracts, the others shift simultaneously.
The only other known examples of this extremely rare form of dish cross include one with alternating wick burners by Paul Crespin (1738) in the Egremont Collection at Petworth House, Sussex, and another by John Swift (1754) sold from the collection of Mrs. C. J. Devine, Christie's, New York, 15 October 1985, lot 1199.
This massive and extremely rare dish cross is far more unusual than the typical X-form dish cross with central spirit burner used to keep food warm at the Georgian table or sideboard. Schruder's ingenious design features three bar supports fitted with pins that engage with a geared column within the heater base, so that as one leg extends or retracts, the others shift simultaneously.
The only other known examples of this extremely rare form of dish cross include one with alternating wick burners by Paul Crespin (1738) in the Egremont Collection at Petworth House, Sussex, and another by John Swift (1754) sold from the collection of Mrs. C. J. Devine, Christie's, New York, 15 October 1985, lot 1199.