A GEORGE II SILVER-GILT CREAM JUG

ATTRIBUTED TO DAVID WILLAUME II, LONDON, CIRCA 1730

细节

A GEORGE II SILVER-GILT CREAM JUG
Attributed to David Willaume II, London, circa 1730
The body cast in the form of an auricular shell, on a spreading foot and supported by a beast, the body applied under the lip with a mask and engraved below with a crest under a coronet, with ribbed serpent scroll handle and palmette join, struck with French control mark near rim
4in. (10.6cm.) high; 9oz. (280gr.)

拍品专文

A number of similar cream jugs are recorded, most of which are unmarked, but all those which are bear the maker's mark of David Willaume II. An example of identical form marked by David Willaume sold in these Rooms, October 27, 1992, lot 375. An unmarked example was sold by Christie's, London, April 27, 1983, while three other unmarked examples of similar form were sold from the collection of the late Hilmar Reksten, Christie's, London, May 22, 1991, lots 90-92.