A RARE WILLIAM III SILVER CADDINET OR INKSTAND, ANTHONY NELME, LONDON, 1696-97

Property from an Important Southern Collection
A RARE WILLIAM III SILVER CADDINET OR INKSTAND, ANTHONY NELME, LONDON, 1696-97

on four dolphin-head feet, with molded rims, mounted on the back with a long box with hinged cover and in the front with a small box with pull-off cover, the covers applied with cut-cardwork
marked inside each box and on covers
29 oz 5 dwt
914 g
length 9¼ in.
23.5 cm

Condition Report:
The cover of long box has has flat-chasing removed. The smaller front box has had a later coat of arms removed from front and has a later cover. The larger box with some splitting along solder seam at molded base band. Otherwise good.

Provenance:
Edith Kane Baker, New York

Sotheby's New York, Oct. 28-29, 1977, lot 610

Garrard & Co., Ltd., London, March 1981