A FINE GEORGE I SILVER CRUET STAND
MARK OF THOMAS BAMFORD, LONDON, 1724
The octagonal frame with baluster-turned center handle, fitted with three octagonal silver casters, and two octagonal clear glass bottles with silver covers, the underside of the stand and bezels of casters engraved with monogram H/T*M, marked on frame and on handle, also with scratch weight 42=18, the coasters marked under bases and on covers, the silver covers to bottles apparently unmarked
8 in. (20.3 cm.) long; 41 oz. (1,287 gr.)
Another octagonal cruet frame by Thomas Bamford is illustrated in Michael Clayton, Christie’s Pictorial History of English and American Silver, 1985, p. 104.
A FINE GEORGE I SILVER CRUET STAND
MARK OF THOMAS BAMFORD, LONDON, 1724
The octagonal frame with baluster-turned center handle, fitted with three octagonal silver casters, and two octagonal clear glass bottles with silver covers, the underside of the stand and bezels of casters engraved with monogram H/T*M, marked on frame and on handle, also with scratch weight 42=18, the coasters marked under bases and on covers, the silver covers to bottles apparently unmarked
8 in. (20.3 cm.) long; 41 oz. (1,287 gr.)
Another octagonal cruet frame by Thomas Bamford is illustrated in Michael Clayton, Christie’s Pictorial History of English and American Silver, 1985, p. 104.