拍品 342
342
Property from the Collection of MR. & MRS. LANSDELL CHRISTIE
A WILLIAM III SILVER WALL SCONCE

MAKER'S MARK OF ANTHONY NELME, LONDON, 1697

细节
A WILLIAM III SILVER WALL SCONCE
maker's mark of anthony nelme, london, 1697
Pierced cartouche shape, the oval reserve chased with lambrequin and tassles, within fishscale and foliate mantling, with part-fluted fruit urn above, the base applied with wirework scroll branch with circular molded wax-pan and tapering socket, the reserve engraved with a coat-of-arms with scroll and garland mantling, marked on front, candelarm and socket
8in. (20.3cm.) high; gross weight 5oz. 10dwt. (182gr.)

拍品专文

The arms are those of James impaling those of Wyndham, as borne by William James of Ightham Court, Kent, the eldest son of Sir Demetrius James who he succeeded in 1678. William James married Anne, the only daughter of Sir Thomas Wyndham, Bt., of Trent, Somerset. He died in 1718.

This sconce is en suite with a pair by the same maker, of slightly larger size, sold by the Henry Ford II Trust, Sotheby's, New York, April 19, 1991, lot 281.