The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection
The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection
A Charles I silver sweetmeat dish, maker's mark IG probably for John Gellibrand, London, 1634
Auction Closed
October 25, 12:38 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
embossed with scrolls and beadwork, prick engraved at center FS 1634 FB, with later engraved foliate initial W at rim on each end, and later Gothic inscription at rim flanking each handle, 'WALKE IN THE LIGHT' with a crest below, marked at rim near handles,
length 18.2cm. (7⅛in.)
162.7gr.; 5 1/4oz.
Asprey & Company, London, 24 May 1976
Three sweetmeat dishes by this maker, 1633, 1634, and 1638, are listed in David M. Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, 2017, p.365.