Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics

Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 109.  A GEORGE II SILVER CAKE BASKET, WILLIAM CRIPPS, LONDON, 1755.

Property from the Estate of Andrew Hartnagle

A GEORGE II SILVER CAKE BASKET, WILLIAM CRIPPS, LONDON, 1755

Lot Closed

April 22, 02:09 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Andrew Hartnagle

A GEORGE II SILVER CAKE BASKET, WILLIAM CRIPPS, LONDON, 1755


the rim applied with grapevine, wheat, and masks of Ceres and Bacchus, engraved with arms in rococo cartouche, the scroll feet headed by openwork cartouches decorated with flowers, the swing handle topped with a crested cartouche

marked on base and handle, the latter rubbed, with scratch weight 70=9

68 oz 5 dwt

2127 g

length 15 in.

38.1 cm

Christie's New York, April 18, 1991, lot 294

The arms are those of Hale of King's Walden, Hertfordshire impaling Farnaby.