AN IMPORTANT JAMES I SILVER SHELL-FORM SPICE BOX

LONDON, 1609, MAKER'S MARK BT, STAVES IN SALTIRE BETWEEN (JACKSON, 3RD ED., P. 107, LINE 17)

细节

AN IMPORTANT JAMES I SILVER SHELL-FORM SPICE BOX
London, 1609, maker's mark BT, staves in saltire between (Jackson, 3rd ed., p. 107, line 17)
With straight sides, raised on four snail feet, with egg-and-dart rim, the hinged cover chased to represent a scallop shell, the back of side prick-engraved with initials EL over AC, also engraved under base with block initials C over AM, marked inside base and under cover
61/8in. (15.5cm.) long; 14oz. (437gr.)

来源

S.J. Shrubsole, 1974

出版

Rita Reif, "Silver to Which Age Adds Luster," The New York Times, April 27, 1986

展览

"Fifty Years on 57th Street," S.J. Shrubsole, New York, April-May, 1986

更多详情

Details of marks, lot 302Detail of prick-engraving, lot 302

拍品专文

A spice box by the same maker, of 1612, was offered from the collection of Mrs. Winston F.C. Guest, Sotheby's, New York, June 17, 1981, lot 55. A spice box with similar snail feet, of 1613, was sold in the same rooms, April 27, 1973, lot 163. A further example of 1610 with shell feet was sold at Christie's, New York, April 16, 1999, lot 242.