Lot 212
Auction: 23 November 2008 at 15:00 GMT
£18,750
Description
A George I silver desk stand
Courtauld, London 1721-22
the tray of rounded rectangular outline with moulded everted rim and engraved with armorial to opposing sides, centrally applied with simple raised stand with pull out drawer and applied with three moulded stands for chalk pot, inkwell and table bell all engraved with crest with coronet above
31cm wide, 76oz
Heraldry:
Engraved with the Arms of Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk, the boxes and bell with the crest and Ducal coronet for the Dukes of Norfolk
Note:
With engraved scratch weight to underside of tray 80=10
Drawers in inkstands are unusual, however the Courtaulds made others: One by Augustine, 1730 (illus. E. A. Jones, Old English Plate of the Emperor of Russia, 1909, pl.XLV). Another by Samuel Courtauld, 1749, is in the Ashmolean Museum
Courtauld, London 1721-22
the tray of rounded rectangular outline with moulded everted rim and engraved with armorial to opposing sides, centrally applied with simple raised stand with pull out drawer and applied with three moulded stands for chalk pot, inkwell and table bell all engraved with crest with coronet above
31cm wide, 76oz
Heraldry:
Engraved with the Arms of Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk, the boxes and bell with the crest and Ducal coronet for the Dukes of Norfolk
Note:
With engraved scratch weight to underside of tray 80=10
Drawers in inkstands are unusual, however the Courtaulds made others: One by Augustine, 1730 (illus. E. A. Jones, Old English Plate of the Emperor of Russia, 1909, pl.XLV). Another by Samuel Courtauld, 1749, is in the Ashmolean Museum
Footnote
Engraved with the Arms of Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk, the boxes and bell with the crest and Ducal coronet for the Dukes of Norfolk
Notes: with engraved scratch weight to underside of tray 80 .. 10
An unusual form, drawers in inkstands are unusual, however the Courtaulds made others;
One by Augustine, 1730 (illus. E. A. Jones, Old English Plate of the Emperor of Russia, 1909, pl.XLV).
Another by Samuel Courtauld, 1749, is in the Ashmolean Museum
Notes: with engraved scratch weight to underside of tray 80 .. 10
An unusual form, drawers in inkstands are unusual, however the Courtaulds made others;
One by Augustine, 1730 (illus. E. A. Jones, Old English Plate of the Emperor of Russia, 1909, pl.XLV).
Another by Samuel Courtauld, 1749, is in the Ashmolean Museum
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