Live Auction 7999Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Glass, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A PAIR OF DUTCH SILVER TOY MINIATURE CANDLESTICKS
Lot 427 PROPERTY FROM THE PORTLAND COLLECTION
(LOTS 397-485)

A PAIR OF DUTCH SILVER TOY MINIATURE CANDLESTICKS

MARKED INDISTINCTLY WITH MAKER'S MARK ONLY PERHAPS FOR SYBOUT VAN BUMA, HARLINGEN, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Closed29 November 2011

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GBP 2,750

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A PAIR OF DUTCH SILVER TOY MINIATURE CANDLESTICKS
MARKED INDISTINCTLY WITH MAKER'S MARK ONLY PERHAPS FOR SYBOUT VAN BUMA, HARLINGEN, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Each with spreading square foot below fluted stems and detachable nozzles, marked twice under base with maker's mark struck twice
2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

For a similar pair, marked for Theodorus Huygen, Harlingen, see V. Houart, L'Argenterie miniature, Fribourg, 1981, p. 90, pl. 105.