Lot 114
114
AN IMPORTANT SILVER CAUDLE CUP

Details
AN IMPORTANT SILVER CAUDLE CUP
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN CONEY, BOSTON, 1690-1710

Of circular form, the lower body repousse and chased with spiral lobes and flutes, the shoulder repousse and chased with gadrooning, with two molded scroll strap handles, engraved under base with I I, later expanded to IRDP, marked under base and on side--2 3/8in. high, 3in. diameter
(2oz.10dwt.)
Provenance
Sotheby's, January 30, 1986, lot 402 or 403

Lot Essay

A nearly identical cup by Coney, also bearing his early fleur-de-lis mark, is in the collection of Historic Deerfield, illustrated in Henry N. Flynt and Martha Gandy Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, 1968, fig. 57, p. 84.