A PAIR OF WILLIAM III SILVER SCONCES MARK OF JOHN BARNARD I, LONDON, CIRCA 1700

A PAIR OF WILLIAM III SILVER SCONCES
MARK OF JOHN BARNARD I, LONDON, CIRCA 1700
Each with shaped oval backplate, centering an engraved coat-of-arms within a gadrooned molding, the border finely chased with scrolling foliage and surmounted by two putti holding a fruit basket aloft, the lower edge mounted with a scrolled branch issuing from a horned beast mask and supporting a leaf-form sconce and shaped circular drip pan, marked throughout, the reverses with scratch weights 13=18 and 14=17
10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) high
26 oz. 16 dwt. (833 gr.)

Provenance
Probably Sir Banastre Maynard (C.1642-1718), later 3rd Baron Maynard of Estaines and Wicklow.
Colonel Herbert Hall Mulliner (1861-1924), of The Albany, Piccadilly and Clifton Court, Rugby, collector, coach builder and scientific instrument manufacturer.
The Choice Collection of Old English Silver and Silver-Gilt Plate of the 17th and 18th Centuries, formed by Colonel H. H. Mulliner; Christie’s, London, 9 July 1924, lot 14.
Acquired from Asprey & Co., London, 1997.