MARK OF FREDERICK KANDLER, LONDON, 1750

細節

A FINE GEORGE II SILVER CAKE BASKET
Mark of Frederick Kandler, London, 1750
Shaped oval on four shell feet headed by wheat sheaves, the sides pierced with scrolls and latticework, the border applied with cast bacchanalian masks, vine tendrils and foliate scrolls, the overhead swing handle with caryatid joins, the center engraved with a Baroness's armorials, circa 1810, marked under base
14in. (37.5cm.) long; 67oz. (2095gr.)

來源

Christie's, London, May 5, 1937, lot 67 (£57 to Lamb and Castle)
Christie's, London, March 2, 1994, lot 94

拍品專文

The arms are those of Dunning impaling Cunningham, in a lozenge, for Anne Selby, daughter of William Cunningham of Lainshaw, and widow of Richard Barre Dunning (1782-1823), 2nd and last Baron Ashburton of the first creation, whom she married in 1805. The engraving appears to date between the death of her first husband in 1823 and her second marriage to Ranald George Macdonald, the Chief of Clanranald, in 1826. The widow was said to possess a fortune of £200,000.