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拍品專文
The arms are those of Cuthbert impaling Creichton, for Penelope Cuthbert (1684/5-1704), daughter of John Creichton (or Crichton) of co. Fermanagh, and wife of John Cuthbert, a goldsmith of Dublin. Penelope was his second wife. They married, as recorded in the inscription, on 1 January 1703/4, however a privately published history of the Crichton family (J. H. Steele, Genealogy of the Earls of Erne, Edinburgh, 1901, p. 30) records the date of the marriage as 24 December 1703.
John Cuthbert, whose maker's mark closely resembles his coat-of-arms, is recorded as a goldsmith of Skinners Row in Dublin. He was apprenticed to his father in 1682, becoming free in 1702, and recorded working until 1729.
Christian Kindt's maker's mark CK is recorded in D. Bennett, Irish Georgian Silver, London, 1972, p. 314, no. 136. Bennett lists him as having been admitted as a quarter brother in 1702 and a freeman in 1707. He had at least one apprentice, William Townsend, who served him from 1718. M. S. Dudley Westropp in The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 'Civic Insignia and Plate of Dublin', vol. 17, no. 2, p. 149 records Kindt's mark on the Great Mace of Dublin, refashioned by him and Thomas Bolton in 1717. His mark is also found on a caster on 1717, sold Christie's London, 26 April 1942, lot 67, and a tankard of 1708.
Thomas Sinsteden has suggested that he may have primarily worked as a chaser. The quantity of plate recorded in the day books for the Dublin Assay Office is quite low. Between the years 1707 and 1713 he never submitted more than 283 ounces for assay and in 1712 only 28 ounces of plate are recorded. His work with Bolton on the Great Mace in 1717 may also have been as a chaser adding the additional ornament and royal cyphers.
We are very grateful to Thomas Sinsteden for information on John Cuthbert and Christian Kindt.
John Cuthbert, whose maker's mark closely resembles his coat-of-arms, is recorded as a goldsmith of Skinners Row in Dublin. He was apprenticed to his father in 1682, becoming free in 1702, and recorded working until 1729.
Christian Kindt's maker's mark CK is recorded in D. Bennett, Irish Georgian Silver, London, 1972, p. 314, no. 136. Bennett lists him as having been admitted as a quarter brother in 1702 and a freeman in 1707. He had at least one apprentice, William Townsend, who served him from 1718. M. S. Dudley Westropp in The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 'Civic Insignia and Plate of Dublin', vol. 17, no. 2, p. 149 records Kindt's mark on the Great Mace of Dublin, refashioned by him and Thomas Bolton in 1717. His mark is also found on a caster on 1717, sold Christie's London, 26 April 1942, lot 67, and a tankard of 1708.
Thomas Sinsteden has suggested that he may have primarily worked as a chaser. The quantity of plate recorded in the day books for the Dublin Assay Office is quite low. Between the years 1707 and 1713 he never submitted more than 283 ounces for assay and in 1712 only 28 ounces of plate are recorded. His work with Bolton on the Great Mace in 1717 may also have been as a chaser adding the additional ornament and royal cyphers.
We are very grateful to Thomas Sinsteden for information on John Cuthbert and Christian Kindt.