MARK OF ANN CRAIG AND JOHN NEVILLE, LONODON 1743

Details

A FINE GEORGE II SILVER CENTERPIECE CANDELABRUM
MARK OF ANN CRAIG AND JOHN NEVILLE, LONODON 1743
On four scroll supports with shell feet, the openwork frame set with circular fluted dish with pierced mask and vine border and supporting four detachable two-light scroll branches with removable spool-form sockets and circular wax pans, the four branches each with circular fluted dish with conforming openwork border, with four detachable floral finials, marked on each dish, all branches but one, and frame
32½ in. (82.5 cm.) long; 375 oz. 10 dwt. (11682 gr.)

Provenance

Private Collection, New York, January 1967

Literature

J.B. Hawkins, The Al-Tajir Collection of Silver and Gold, London, 1983, vol. I, p. 50-51
M. Clayton, The Collector's Dictionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America, 1985, p. 179, pl. 36
The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, p. 121, fig. 86

Exhibited

Sydney Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1980, no. 6 Christie's, London, "The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection," 1989, no. 86

Lot Essay

Ann Craig, presumably the widow of John Craig, entered her first mark in partnership with John Neville in 1740. A select amount of silver remains from this short partnership (Craig entered his own mark in 1745), but is typically of high quality, in the rococo taste.

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