Thomas King
A Charles II Chinoiserie Antique English Silver Tazza, 1679
Diameter: 13 3/4 in.
Weight: 32 oz. 16 dwt.
Weight: 32 oz. 16 dwt.
London
H0651
$ 45,000.00
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The arms are those of a lady of the Ashburnham family. The tazza’s in in fine condition, as evidenced by the fact that it has only lost 12 pennyweights over...
The arms are
those of a lady of the Ashburnham family.
The tazza’s in in fine condition, as evidenced by the
fact that it has only lost 12 pennyweights over 350 years (the original scratch
weight of 33 oz. 8 dwt. is recorded under the base).
Literature:
Vanessa Brett, The Sotheby's
Directory of Silver 1600-1940, 1986, p. 136, pl. 477.
David Mitchell, Silversmiths
in Elizabethan and Stuart London, 2017, p. 541.
Provenance:
Anonymous sale;
Sotheby's, London, 20 April 1972, lot 102.
A Canadian Collector; Christie's, New York, 30
October 1991, lot 300.