A silver-mounted nautilus shell cup, maker's mark only, W incorporating two vertical lines or two arrowheads side by side in a shield-shaped punch, English, first quarter of the 17th century
A silver-mounted nautilus shell cup, maker's mark only, W incorporating two vertical lines or two arrowheads side by side in a shield-shaped punch, English, first quarter of the 17th century
on circular pedestal base with moulded border, knopped baluster stem rising to four plain straps and a lip mount with invected or leaf-shaped borders, applied at the heel of the shell with a cut-out tulip shape engraved with a coat-of-arms between two similar fronds of foliage, the underside with pricked scratch weight: '8:oz:4d:wtt:'
18.2cm., 7 1/8 in. high
Provenance:
The coat-of-arms, a fess lozengy, is augmented with the mark of cadency (a crescent) for a second son.
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A silver-mounted nautilus shell cup, maker's mark only, W incorporating two vertical lines or two arrowheads side by side in a shield-shaped punch, English, first quarter of the 17th century
on circular pedestal base with moulded border, knopped baluster stem rising to four plain straps and a lip mount with invected or leaf-shaped borders, applied at the heel of the shell with a cut-out tulip shape engraved with a coat-of-arms between two similar fronds of foliage, the underside with pricked scratch weight: '8:oz:4d:wtt:'
18.2cm., 7 1/8 in. high
Provenance:
The coat-of-arms, a fess lozengy, is augmented with the mark of cadency (a crescent) for a second son.
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