Lot Essay
A standing salt of similar form, though without cover, is the Daniel Waldo silver-gilt salt, London, c.1620-30 (see P. Glanville, Silver in Tudor and Early Stuart England, 1990, p. 161).
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LONDON, THE COVER 1563, THE BODY 1564, MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT
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AN ELIZABETH I SILVER-GILT STANDING SALT-CELLAR
LONDON, THE COVER 1563, THE BODY 1564, MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT
Drum-shaped on spreading circular base with three cast grotesque feet, cast and chased with foliage and strapwork and applied with three busts, with guilloché borders, the detachable cover with finial cast as an armed knight holding a lance and shield, marked on lower body and on cover
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high
6 oz. (194 gr.)
LONDON, THE COVER 1563, THE BODY 1564, MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT
Drum-shaped on spreading circular base with three cast grotesque feet, cast and chased with foliage and strapwork and applied with three busts, with guilloché borders, the detachable cover with finial cast as an armed knight holding a lance and shield, marked on lower body and on cover
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high
6 oz. (194 gr.)
Provenance
Captain N.R. Colville (1893-1974), by 1929.
Anonymous sale [J. Bomford]; Christie's, London, 27 January 1942, lot 138.
H. J. P. Bomford of Laines, Aldbourne, Wiltshire; Christie's, London, 12 July 1944, lot 50.
F. W. Green Dulverton, 1949.
A Collector; Sotheby's, London, 8 June 1972, lot 66.
Anonymous sale [J. Bomford]; Christie's, London, 27 January 1942, lot 138.
H. J. P. Bomford of Laines, Aldbourne, Wiltshire; Christie's, London, 12 July 1944, lot 50.
F. W. Green Dulverton, 1949.
A Collector; Sotheby's, London, 8 June 1972, lot 66.
Exhibited
London, 29 Park Lane, W.1., A Loan Exhibition of Old English Plate, 1929, no. 357 (Captain N. R. Colville).
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