Details
A FINE QUEEN ANNE SILVER KETTLE WITH A WILLIAM AND MARY STAND AND LAMP
LONDON, 1703, MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN MARTIN STOCKAR; THE STAND 1700, MAKER'S MARK UNCLEAR
Of cottage-loaf form, the sides applied with bifurcated cut-card foliate scrolls, the fluted scroll spout with hinged flat cover, the domed cover with gadrooned rim and similar cut-card foliate scroll decoration, with wood bead finial and overhead wood swing handle, engraved with a coat-of-arms and crest within a foliate scroll and fishscale cartouche, marked on rim and cover; the stand on three claw supports raised on wood ball supports and terminating in scrolls, the apron pierced with foliate scrolls above a baluster drop, with fitted circular lamp engraved with the same crest, with double scroll swing side handles with bell-shaped extinguisher and U-shaped nippers joined by link chains, marked under base--overall height 15 1/4in. (38.6cm.)
(gross weight 95 oz. 10 dwt.)
Provenance
George A. Lockett, dec'd, Christie's, London, April 22, 1942, lot 32 A Lady, Sotheby's, London, March 24, 1960
Thomas Lumley Ltd., London
