Live Auction 15491The Collector: Silver &19th Century Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art
A CHARLES I SILVER WINE-CUP
Lot 411

A CHARLES I SILVER WINE-CUP

LONDON, 1631, MAKER’S MARK IT WITH TWO PELLETS ABOVE AND ONE BELOW IN HEART SHAPED CARTOUCHE, PROBABLY FOR JOSEPH TAYLOR

Closed24 May 2018

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GBP 13,750

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A CHARLES I SILVER WINE-CUP
LONDON, 1631, MAKER’S MARK IT WITH TWO PELLETS ABOVE AND ONE BELOW IN HEART SHAPED CARTOUCHE, PROBABLY FOR JOSEPH TAYLOR
With everted rim and engraved with a later coat-of-arms, on a baluster stem and circular foot, marked on rim and foot and with scratchweight '15 oz' further engraved under foot
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high
14 oz. 2 dwt. (439 gr.)
The arms are those as borne by Eden of Ballingdon Hamlet, co. Essex and Sudbury, co. Suffolk, granted in 1634.

Specialist note

The present mark, recorded by Ian Pickford, Jackson’s Goldsmiths and Their Marks, Woodbridge, 1989, on page 114, line 4, has been attributed to Joseph Taylor by Dr David Mitchell in his new work Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London Their Marks and Their Lives, Woodbridge, 2017, pp. 401-402. Taylor became free in 1624, having been apprenticed to Thomas Ellis. Early in his career he is recorded as having a number of pieces broken for being below standard. Taylor served for the Parliamentarians during the Civil War, being among those killed in Abington in 1646. A very similar pair of cups are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and are recorded op. cit., p. 403, fig. 182.