Live Auction 18366The Collector: European and English 18th and 19th Century Furniture and Works of Art, Silver, Ceramics and Gold Boxes
A PAIR OF WILLIAM III SCOTTISH SILVER COMMUNION CUPS
Lot 223 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 223 AND 224)

A PAIR OF WILLIAM III SCOTTISH SILVER COMMUNION CUPS

MARK OF JOHN LUKE II, GLASGOW, 1701

Closed15 July 2020

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A PAIR OF WILLIAM III SCOTTISH SILVER COMMUNION CUPS
MARK OF JOHN LUKE II, GLASGOW, 1701
On stepped spreading foot, with baluster stems, the tapering bowls with everted rims, each engraved with inscription 'The Communion Cups at Killbryde', marked on bowls
9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high
32 oz. 10 dwt. (1,011 gr.)

West Kilbride Parish Church.
Anonymous sale; Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh, 12 February 2014, lot 408.

Specialist note

The Luke family of Glasgow silversmiths appear to have specialised in the production of communion cups owing to the number of surviving examples from the churches of Glasgow and the surrounding area. Many, such as the present examples, have bell-shaped bowls, and some have wider shallower bowls, such as the Cardross Cups, made for Cardross Parish Church, Dumbartonshire, now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.