A GEORGE II SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER

MAKER'S MARK OF FREDERICK KANDLER, LONDON, 1740

Details

A GEORGE II SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER
Maker's mark of Frederick Kandler, London, 1740
Vase-form, on a spreading circular foot applied with grapevine leaves and rocaille, the lower body applied with orange trees below an applied reeded girdle, the upper body repouss and chased with grapes and grapevine amid rocaille centering a coat-of-arms in a rococo cartouche on each side, the domed cover wtih similar decoration surmounted by a cluster of foliage and grapes, with acanthus-clad scroll handles, marked under base and on cover bezel
12in. (32.3cm) high; 76oz. 10dwt. (2387gr.)

Provenance

Captain Sir Philip Bowyer-Smyth, Bt., Christie's, London, December 3, 1969, lot 30

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Windham. Sir William Smijth, 7th baronet married in 1779, Anne, only daughter of John Windham of Waghen, co. York, who assumed the additional name of Bowyer, which was in turn assumed by Sir Edward Smijth, 10th baronet, his great-nephew.

This cup and cover is illustrated in Michael Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, 1985, p. 174, no. 3. Another cup by the same maker, dated 1738, with similar orange tree decoration, is in the collection of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.