Live Auction 10397Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A GEORGE II SILVER SUGAR-CASTER
Lot 639

A GEORGE II SILVER SUGAR-CASTER

MARK OF AUGUSTINE COURTAULD, LONDON, 1741

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 16,250

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A GEORGE II SILVER SUGAR-CASTER
MARK OF AUGUSTINE COURTAULD, LONDON, 1741
Baluster pear-shaped on spreading base, cast and applied with foliage scrolls and flowers and with two vacant cartouches within rocaille, the cover cast and pierced with swirling foliage and with foliage heightened reeded rim, marked underneath and on cover bezel, the foot and cover bezel further marked with French import mark, the base prick engraved with German scratchweight '1m 21 lott'
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) high
16 oz. 1 dwt. (500 gr.)

Specialist note

The work and the descendents of Augustine Courtauld (1685-1751) are discussed in the note for the previous lot in this sale. A similar caster of 1750, by Augustine's son Samuel Courtauld (1720-1765) is in the Akzo Nobel Collection, on loan to the Courtauld Gallery, London and illustrated in H. Braham, A Century of Silver, The Courtauld Family of Silversmiths, 1710-1780, London, 2014, p. 33, fig D12.