Live Auction 15491The Collector: Silver &19th Century Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art
A JAMES I SILVER-GILT WINE-CUP
Lot 404

A JAMES I SILVER-GILT WINE-CUP

LONDON, 1614, MAKER’S MARK MB CONJOINED, A BILLET BELOW, IN PLAIN SHIELD, POSSIBLY THAT OF MARK BINGHAM

Closed24 May 2018

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A JAMES I SILVER-GILT WINE-CUP
LONDON, 1614, MAKER’S MARK MB CONJOINED, A BILLET BELOW, IN PLAIN SHIELD, POSSIBLY THAT OF MARK BINGHAM
Engraved with flowers and arabesques and a crest prick-engraved with the initials 'TD' over 'I', on a tapering stem, the foot with gadroons and foliate decoration, marked to rim and under foot, engraved inventory number '5945', with later detachable liner, mark of William Elliott, London, 1820
7 ¾ in. (19.5 cm.) high
total weight 9 oz. 10 dwt. (296 gr.)

Almost certainly Sir Richard Sutton Bt. (1733-1802) and thence by descent to
Sir Richard Sutton; Christie's, London, 11 May 1994, lot 251.

Specialist note

The mark, recorded by Ian Pickford, Jackson’s Goldsmiths and Their Marks, Woodbridge, 1989 on page 103, line 8, has been given a possible attribution to Mark Bingham by Dr David Mitchell in his new work Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London Their Marks and Their Lives, Woodbridge, 2017, p. 414 where he suggests his as ‘…. the most likely owner of the mark’. Bingham, originally from Derbyshire, was apprenticed to Thomas Alsopp, becoming free in 1592. He seems to have had an active career as a plateworker, with a number of apprentices, before dying in 1641.