A PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER CANDLESTICKS

The mark which appears on this pair of candlesticks and the previous lot doesn’t seem to be recorded by either Ian Pickford, Jackson’s Goldsmiths and Their Marks, Woodbridge, 1989, or by Dr David Mitchell in his new work Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London Their Marks and Their Lives, Woodbridge, 2017. The mark can be compared to a mark attributed by Dr Mitchell to John Bache (op. cit., pp. 238-240). Bache’s later Britannia standard mark certainly appears on candlesticks and so it is possible that the mark on the present candlesticks, and those offered here as lot 408, is a variation of his mark.