Lot Essay
A virtually identical candlesticks of 1694, maker's mark ES anchor between, was sold Sotheby's, London, October 21, 1965, lot 68.
Details
A PAIR OF WILLIAM III SILVER CANDLESTICKS
LONDON, 1695, MAKER'S MARK IL, CORONET ABOVE (JACKSON, 1989 ED., P.135, LINE 19)
Each on a square base with canted corners cast and chased with a band of dentilation, rising to a knopped baluster stem with similar decoration and applied with four lion masks, the baluster socket with similar dentilation, marked under bases and with scratch weights 13-10 and 13-3--5 7/8in. (15cm.) high
(25 oz. 10 dwt.) (2)
LONDON, 1695, MAKER'S MARK IL, CORONET ABOVE (JACKSON, 1989 ED., P.135, LINE 19)
Each on a square base with canted corners cast and chased with a band of dentilation, rising to a knopped baluster stem with similar decoration and applied with four lion masks, the baluster socket with similar dentilation, marked under bases and with scratch weights 13-10 and 13-3--5 7/8in. (15cm.) high
(25 oz. 10 dwt.) (2)
Provenance
M.E. Summers, Esq.
Sotheby's at Simpson's, Toronto, October 17, 1967, lot 222 (sold with the following lot in this sale)
Sotheby's at Simpson's, Toronto, October 17, 1967, lot 222 (sold with the following lot in this sale)