Lot 306
  • 306

A Rare Early Irish Silver Caster, Anthony Stanley, Dublin, 1694

Estimate
10,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • fully marked on body and cover, base engraved with weight 9:16
  • silver
  • height 7 7/8 in.
  • 19.7cm
of lighthouse form on a domed base chased with gadroons, the body engraved with a contemporary crest above a molded girdle, the bayonet-fixed domed cover pierced with diagonal rows of flowerheads, crosses, quatrefoils and pateras, topped by two rows bands of chased gadroons and conforming baluster finial

Provenance

Burfitt Ltd., London, 1959

Condition

repaired split behind one mark on cover probably cased when mark struck, stem of finial repaired, otherwise good
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