A FINE AND RARE GEORGE I SILVER CENSER

MAKER'S MARK OF ANTHONY NELME, LONDON, 1722

Details

A FINE AND RARE GEORGE I SILVER CENSER
Maker's mark of Anthony Nelme, London, 1722
Baluster form on a molded circular foot, the triple domed cover pierced with scrolls and applied with three cylindrical sleeves for chains which rise to a central disc handle, the finial also attached to a chain, with metal liner, one side of body engraved with a lozenge-of-arms within foliage, marked under base and on cover, also with scratchweight 19=5
The censer 8¼in. (21cm.) high, with chains 16¾in. (42.5cm.) high; 19oz. (604gr.)

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, October 19, 1978, lot 131
S.J. Shrubsole, 1990

Literature

Vanessa Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver 1600-1940, 1986, no. 559, illus. p. 150.

Further details

Detail of arms, lot 263

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Bridgeman, almost certainly for Judith Bridgeman, daughter of Sir John Bridgeman, baronet, of Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire. She married Captain Richard Corbet, who died in 1718. An extensive toilet service made for Judith Bridgeman in 1691, also by Anthony Nelme, was in the collection of William Randolph Hearst, sold at Christie's London, December 14, 1938, lot 67. Two of the covered bowls from the toilet service are in the Gilbert Collection at Somerset House, published in Timothy B. Schroder, The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver, 1988, p. 137, cat. no. 33.

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