MARK OF SEBASTIAN (I) AND JAMES CRESPEL, LONDON, 1765
Details
A GEORGE III SILVER EWER
MARK OF SEBASTIAN (I) AND JAMES CRESPEL, LONDON, 1765
Baluster form on circular gadrooned foot, the scroll handle capped with a leaf, the bottom of the spout with an applied shell, with a gadrooned rim, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked on the underside
11 ½ in. (28.7 cm.) high; 54 oz. (1,684 gr.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 November 1961, lot 102. Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968.
Literature
Y. Hackenbroch, English and Other Silver: The Collection of Irwin Untermyer, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1969, p. 97, no. 187.
Lot Essay
The arms are those of Fullerton of Thrybergh Park, Yorkshire.
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