A CHARLES II SILVER DISH

LONDON, 1681, MAKER'S MARK AH, CRESCENT BELOW, MULLET OR PELLET ABOVE, VERY PROBABLY FOR ABRAHAM HINDE

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A CHARLES II SILVER DISH
LONDON, 1681, MAKER'S MARK AH, CRESCENT BELOW, MULLET OR PELLET ABOVE, VERY PROBABLY FOR ABRAHAM HINDE
Shaped circular with scalloped rim, chased and embossed with spiral flutes, flowers and foliage around a central boss engraved with coat-of-arms within plumes, marked under rim and with maker's mark underneath, with later wood stand
16 ½ in. (42 cm.) diam.
36 oz. 12 dwt. (1,140 gr.)
The arms are those of Holte impaling Clobery for Sir Charles Holte, 3rd Bt. (1648-1722) of Aston, co. Warwick and his wife Anne, daughter of John Clobery, whom he married in 1680. He was M. P. for Warwickshire and succeeded to the Baronetcy in 1679.

Provenance

Sir Charles Holte 3rd Bt. (1648-1722) of Aston, co. Warwick.

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Lot Essay

A group of similar dishes engraved with the same arms are known. An example with shaped border, and with the same maker's mark and engraved with the same arms as the present lot was sold Christie's, London, 22 November 1978, lot 177 and illustrated in M. Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, Oxford, 1985, p. 69, pl. 6. That example was later sold as part of a pair, Christie's, London, 10 July 1996, lot 183. A closely-related example with maker's mark WW with mullet and pellets below, made in 1673, is part of the Birmingham Civic Plate.

The attribution of this mark is based on research by Dr. David Mitchell for the Goldsmiths' Company.

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