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A JAMES II SILVER TOBACCO BOX
Lot 297 WORKS OF ART FROM THE COLLECTION OF HUGH AND MARION SASSOON

A JAMES II SILVER TOBACCO BOX

THE BOX WITH MAKER'S MARK SH, CINQUEFOIL BELOW, IN HEART-SHAPED SHIELD PROBABLY FOR SAMUEL HAWKES, LONDON, 1686; THE COVER WITH MAKER'S MARK ONLY THREE TIME TH WITH PELLET BELOW AND CROWN ABOVE IN SHAPED SHIELD

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A JAMES II SILVER TOBACCO BOX
THE BOX WITH MAKER'S MARK SH, CINQUEFOIL BELOW, IN HEART-SHAPED SHIELD PROBABLY FOR SAMUEL HAWKES, LONDON, 1686; THE COVER WITH MAKER'S MARK ONLY THREE TIME TH WITH PELLET BELOW AND CROWN ABOVE IN SHAPED SHIELD
Oval with corded borders, the pull off cover engraved with a coat-of-arms and crest, the box underneath with cypher IKBDEC, marked on side and in cover
3 7/8 in. (10 cm.) long
4 oz. 10 dwt. (141 gr.)

A Gentleman [Mr. O. Goodman]; Christie's, London, 5 June 1928, lot 96 (£110 to Mrs Meyer).
Mrs Flora Meyer, and by descent to her daughter
Mrs Doris Herschorn (d. 1975), and by descent to her son Hugh Sassoon.

Specialist note

The maker's mark is recorded in D. Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, their Lives and their Marks, Woodbridge, 2017, p. 490 on several tobacco boxes, snuff-boxes, wine tasters, small porringers, tumbler cups and spoons.
Samuel was the son of Thomas Hawkes of Oxted, Surrey, a yeoman and was apprenticed to John Bracey for seven years from 1657 but in 1658 he switched to John Gray for eight years, becoming free in 1666. Like his master he was a plateworker as well as running a retail trader active in the Goldsmiths' Company. Amongst his apprentices he counted a Thomas Smith in 1691 who never registered a mark.