MARK OF THOMAS CORY, LONDON, 1686

Details

A JAMES II SILVER CORDIAL POT
MARK OF THOMAS CORY, LONDON, 1686
Pear shaped on three scroll and pad feet with cut-card rosette terminals, the turned wood side handle issuing from a cut-card calyx, the hinged cover with baluster finial, later engraved with a crest, marked on base and cover
4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm.) high
gross weight 7 oz. 4 dwt. (233 gr.)
The crest is that of Jackson of Kilwoldsgrove, co. York.

Provenance

Ernest Samuel Makower F.S.A. (1876-1946), of Holmwood, Binfield Heath, Henley, a trustee of the London Museum, then to his widow,
Rachel Makower (d.1960),
The late Mrs. R. Makower; Sotheby's, London, 16 March 1961, lot 100.
Mrs. R. M. Robertson, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada,
The Robertson Collection; Christie's, New York, 27 October 1987, lot 446.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 July 1995, lot 135.

Exhibited

London, 25 Park Lane, W.1., The Loan Exhibition of Old English Plate, 1929, no. 94, pl. XIX, lent by E. S. Makower Esq.

Special notice

This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

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Lot Essay

Few examples survive of this rare form. A similar cordial pot was in the Untermyer Collection, illustrated in Y. Hackenbroch, English and other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, New York, 1968, pl. 81. Struck with maker's mark FS over S, circa 1685, it is closely related to the present example. It is supported on very similar scroll feet and has similar cut-card decoration and slightly domed cover. Another related example, by the same maker, circa 1690, is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and is illustrated in M. Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, Oxford, 1985, p. 84.

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