LONDON, CIRCA 1680, MAKER'S MARK AH WITH PELLET ABOVE AND CRESCENT BELOW

Details

A pair of Charles II silver dishes
London, circa 1680, maker's mark AH with pellet above and crescent below
Shaped-circular and on plain rim foot, the broad border chased with a band of swirling flutes, flowers and foliage, the centre engraved with a coat-of-arms within plume mantling, marked on reverse with maker's mark only, one with maker's mark struck twice
14½in. (37cm.) diam.
48ozs. (1,513grs.)

For the same maker's mark see Jackson, Ian Pickford ed., p.131 (2)

Provenance

Sir Charles Holt, 3rd Bt. (d.1722)
Anonymous sale, Christie's, 22 November 1978, lot 177 (one of the present lot)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Holte impaling Cloberry for Sir Charles Holte M.P. (d.1722) and his wife Anne, eldest daughter of Sir John Cloberry K.T., of Winchester, who he married in 1680, having succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1679.

A group of similar dishes engraved with the same arms are known. One with maker's mark WW with mullet and pellets below, made in 1673 is part of the Birmingham Civic Plate and is on loan to the Birmingham City Art Gallery.

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