A CHARLES II SILVER-GILT PERFUME OR INCENSE BURNER

Whilst Dutch examples are known, for example, one in the Portland Collection (see E. A. Jones, Catalogue of Plate Belonging to the Duke of Portland, K.G., G.C.V.O., London, 1935, p. 87, pl. xii), which was made by Nicholaas Loockemans, The Hague, 1678, the more likely origin for the present example is London. A very similar example is in the collection of the Duke of Rutland is hallmarked for London, 1677 (see C. Jackson, An Illustrated History of English Plate, London, 1911, vol. I, p. 245, fig. 255), and another, now in the collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was formerly in the Untermeyer collection, with maker's mark TL only (museum accession no. 68.141.232a–c, see Y. Hackenbroch, English and Other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, no. 56, p. 32).