Live Auction 16217The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection Sale
A PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER CANDLESTICKS
Lot 637

A PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER CANDLESTICKS

LONDON, 1693, MAKER'S MARK B OR IB SCRIPT WITH CROWN ABOVE

Closed7 December 2018

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GBP 11,250

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A PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER CANDLESTICKS
LONDON, 1693, MAKER'S MARK B OR IB SCRIPT WITH CROWN ABOVE
On stepped square base with canted corners, the octagonal stem with reeded knop and spool-shaped socket, engraved with a crest, marked on bases and one socket
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) high
28 oz. 5 dwt. (879 gr.)

Specialist note

The maker's mark on this lot does not appear to be recorded by either Ian Pickford in 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 one attributed by Dr Mitchell to John Bache, op. cit., pp. 238-240. Bache’s later Britannia standard mark certainly appears on candlesticks and therefore it is possible that the mark on the present candlesticks is a variation of his mark.