MARK OF THOMAS CORBETT, LONDON, 1701

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A pair of William III silver wall-sconces
Mark of Thomas Corbett, London, 1701
Each with rectangular back-plate with canted upper angles, and square base, with gadrooned borders, the candle-holder with reeded baluster shaped socket and fixed plain nozzle, probably later circa 1725, the back-plate applied with a cast cresting of two birds and an urn of flowers, a supporting clip behind, the back-plate engraved with a coat of arms beneath baron's coronet, with supporters and motto, marked on reverse and under base, engraved with scratchweights 25-3-12 and 26-14-12
10½in. (26.5cm.) high
55oz. (1,732gr.)
The arms are those of Clifford, for Hugh, 2nd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1663-1730). Lord Clifford succeeded his father at the age of ten. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Preston Bt., of Furness, co. Lancaster. (2)

Provenance

Hugh, 2nd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1663-1730) and by descent to
The Trustees of the Hon. Thomas Clifford, Ugbrooke Park, Devon; Sotheby's London, 30 April 1987, lot 111

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Lot Essay

Thomas Corbett was apprenticed to Matthew Gyles of the Mercant Taylors' Company in around 1692. Corbett was the son of Symon Corbett of St. Martin's Middlesex. His apprenticeship was turned over to the renowned Huguenot goldsmith Pierre Platel, Paul de Lamerie's master, from who he was freed on the 6th December 1699, entering his first mark on the 12th of that month (A. Grimwade, London Goldsmiths 1697-1837, Their Marks and Lives, London, 1982, p. 472). Few pieces of his work survive although John Hayward illustrates a chocolate pot of 1702 in Huguenot Silver in England 1688-1727), London, 1959, and a mug of 1703 was sold Christie's London, 25 February 1942, lot 24 and a chased tazza of the same year was sold Christie's London, 11 July 1900, lot 95.

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