A GERMAN SILVER WINDSHIELD

细节
A GERMAN SILVER WINDSHIELD
BERLIN, LATE 19TH CENTURY, MAKER'S MARK OF VOLLGOLD & SOHN

In the George III English style, of shaped triangular form raised on three scroll feet with molded and gadrooned borders, the deep sides pierced with panels of scrolls, engraved underneath with scratch weight, marked under base--7 3/8in.(18.5cm.) high
(57oz.)

拍品专文

The Earl of Lonsdale ordered three identical windsheilds from the London Goldsmiths George Wickes and Samuel Netherton in 1757/8. As Michael Clayton commented, "The silver windsheild is the epitome of luxury." (Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, 1985, p. 152).