Property from an Important Southern Collection
TWO MATCHING GEORGE II SILVER CRUET STANDS, GEORGE WICKES, LONDON, 1742
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Property from an Important Southern Collection
TWO MATCHING GEORGE II SILVER CRUET STANDS, GEORGE WICKES, LONDON, 1742
the octagonal bottle-holders pierced with interlaced foliage, with acanthus-capped scalework handles, the silver mounts of the cut-glass bottles engraved with shells, acanthus, and flowers, one pair with later lion crest below coronet, the other pair with later Moor-head crest below coronet
stands marked on bases and numbered and with scratch weights No 1 / 21=5 and No 2 / 21=5, the bottle mounts unmarked
42 oz excluding bottles
1306 g
length 6⅝ in.
Garrard & Co., Ltd., London, May and July 1980
Elaine Bair, George Wickes, Royal Goldsmith 1698-1761, p. 74, pl. 37 (one of the two), where she notes that a similar cruet stand was made by Paul de Lamerie in 1727, adding that “Wickes’s version is far more delicate: the piercing is exceptionally fine.”
The Moor head crest is that of the Earls of Annesley or the Earls of Mordaunt.