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240 Lots from the Lifetime Collection of CHARLES C. WILLIAMS(1925-1996). FEATURING: Rare Early American, English and Irish Silver. In Association with MARK GAINES.
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LOT 18:
John Smith, Sheffield, England, 1777-78.
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Start price:
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Estimated price :
$700 - $900
Buyer's Premium: 25%
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John Smith, Sheffield, England, 1777-78.
18th century pair of Adam style sterling silver weighted candlesticks, John Smith, Sheffield, England, 1777-78, having removable circular bobeches with beaded edges, ornately figured shafts, round nozzles, and circular bases. The shafts are decorated with classical drapery, goat heads, urn form nozzles, and Adam style swags. The bases with raised cameo portraits of Roman nobles or Caesar and crowned with laurel wreaths. The bases and bobeches engraved en suite with a lion bust holding crossed double X's between its paws. Fully hallmarked on bases. 11-1/2''h, 5-7/8''w. Provenance: Parton Althouse, Alexandria Antiques Show, 1968. Literature: ''Silver and Gold Marks of England, Scotland, and Ireland, '' by Charles James Jackson, 3rd edition revised, 1989, New York: Antiques Collector's Club Dist, cites candlesticks by John Smith in the South Kensington Museum and St. John's College, Cambridge.
