Silver

An area worth mentioning for it is one of the most desired department to all known antique collectors especially local clients how are willing to push bidding to it's limit to obtain the rarest pieces. Such pieces dating back to the era of Knights of the Order of St John show considerable amount of interest in local auction and thus, fetch high prices hence their rarity and the fact that they do not appear often for sale. A pair of silver candlesticks with a detachable two-arm candelabra attachment from the Grand Master Pinto period (1741-1773), sold recently in a local auction, fetched a high price of €20,000. The mentioned articles vary from library oil lamps, coffee pots, sugar bowls, candlesticks and candelabras, rosewater ewers and basins, salvers, trays and card trays, vegetable dished, inkstands, candle snuffers on trays, chamber candlesticks, muffiniers, cruet stands, salt cellars, vinaigrette and snuff boxes, flatware

Apart from the local market, international silver articles are also well looked for especially Italian, English, French and German pieces of significant historic importance and well crafted detailed pieces from pioneer silversmiths.

Important Silversmiths;

England;

Andrew Fogelberg (London c1767-c1780)
Anthony Nelme (London c1691)
Augustin Le Sage (London c1767-c1776)
Augustine Courtauld I (London c1739)
Aymé Videau (London c1755)
Benjamin Godfrey (London c1737-c1740)
Benjamin Smith III (London c1818-c1848)
Blanche Fralion (London c1727)
Charles Adam (London c1700-c1719)
Charles Alchorne (London c1737)
Charles Frederick Kandler (London c1735-c1760)
Charles Frederick Hancock (London c1860-c1889)
Charles Martin (London c1736-c1738)
Charles Thomas Fox (London c1823-c1840)
Charles Wright (London c1770-c1782)
Christian John Reid (London c1883-c1885)
David Hennell I (London c1739-c1755)
David Willaume I (London c1725)
Daniel Piers (London c1750-c1753)
Digby Scott (London c1790)
Edward Aldridge I (London c1741-c1764)
Edward Bennett I (London c1732-c1759)
Edward Farrell (London c1814-1845)
Edward Feline (London c1739-c1749)
Edward Jennings (London c1722-c1738)
Edward Pocock (London c1728-c1738)
Edward Wakelin (London c1747-c1759)
Edward Wood (London c1728-c1750)
Ebenezer Coker (London c1740-c1772)
Elizabeth Godfrey (London c1749-c1765)
Elizabeth Goodwin (London c1729)
Emick Romer (London c1759-c1773)
Fuller White (London c1746-c1767)
Francis Boone Thomas (London c1877-c1898)
Francis Crump (London c1741-c1772)
Francis Nelme (London c1732)
Francis Spilsbury I (London c1730-c1741)
Francis Spilsbury II (London c1770-c1771)
Frederick Elkington (London c1870-c1885)
Frederick Knopfell (London c1754-c1770)
Gabriel Sleath (London c1723-c1752)
George Fox (London c1862-c1908)
George Wickes (London c1728-c1742)
Hester Bateman (London c1774-c1790)
Hugh Mills (London c1746-c1751)
Humphrey Payne (London c1726-c1750)
Isaac Callard (London c1728-c1761)
Isaac Dighton (London c1698)
James Gould (London c1728-c1736)
John Bache (London c1720)
John Barbe (London c1741-c1750)
John Bridge (London c1824-c1830)
John Cafe (London c1744-c1756)
John Denzilow (London c1774-c1793)
John Farnell (London c1714-c1722)
Joseph Bird (London c1700)
Paul de Lamerie (London c1730-c1749)
Paul Storr (London c1792-c1838)
Peter Archambo I (London c1722-c1740)
Pierre Gillois (London c1757-c1781)
Philip Goddard (London c1744-c1753)
Phillip Rundell (Rundell Bridge & Rundell) (London c1819-c1823)
Richard Green (London c1709-c1713)
Robert Garrard II (Garrard & Co) (London c1818-c1888)
Samuel Hood (London c1700)
Thomas Heming (London c1745-c1782)
William Fleming (London c1708-c1719)
William Pitts II (London c1781-c1806)

Silver articles are always present in Fine Furnishings and Decorated Arts auctions at Centurion Auctioneers which are held regularly.

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ENGLISH SILVER WINE EWER
MARK OF CHARLES WRIGHT, LONDON, 1779
Vase-shaped with waisted neck, bead borders and square pedestal base raised on four ball feet, urn finial, wood handle, front engraved with armorial shield and Scottish crest with wreath below and swag above, leafy junctions to handle

14 in. high (36 cm.) 31.5 oz. (977 grams).

Sold EUR 3,624.66 Christie's auctions

GERMAN SILVER GILD CANDLESTICKS
MARK OF CHRISTIAN HEINRICH INGERMANN, DRESDEN, 1747
Each on shaped circular base, chased with foliage and rocaille, the tapering stems and nozzles similarly cast, engraved underneath with initials, each marked underneath, further engraved with inventory numbers '23' and '24'.

9½ in. (24.1 cm.) high 56 oz. (1,748 grams).

Sold £97,250 Christie's auctions

ENGLISH SILVER KETTLE ON STAND
MARK OF CHARLES KANDLER, LONDON, 1729
Melon fluted, the shoulder and hinged cover engraved with a band of foliage scrolls and latticework with portrait busts, the hinged cover with part-ivory finial, with an overhead part-wood swing handle, the stand on three scroll legs, each capped with a grotesque mask and connected by an openwork skirt, the lamp with cast band of ovolo, the detachable cover with hinged lid, the body engraved on each side with a coat-of-arms.

15½ in. (39.3 cm.) high 117 oz. 12 dwt. (3,657 grams).

Sold £27,500 Christie's auctions

GERMAN SILVER GILD SIDEBOARD DISH
MARK OF JOHANN MITTNACHT, AUGSBURG, 1689-1692
Oval, the border chased with four busts of Roman emperors withing foliage and shells, the centre chased with a central Classical female figure in a chariot holding a cornucopia and being drawn by two horses, flanked by two further female figures, marked near rim.

21 5/8 in. (55.2 cm.) wide 36 oz. (1,134 grams).

Sold £10,000 Christie's auctions

ENGLISH SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER
MARK OF WILLIAM CRIPPS, LONDON, 1750-1751
Bombé oval, on scroll and shell feet, with female herms applied at the joins with flowers and scrolls, the domed cover chased with vegetables, crustaceans, and rocaille, surmounted by an acanthus and vegetable finial, with an engraved coat-of-arms in a rococo carouche, marked underneath and on cover bezel.

18 in. (45 cm.) long over handles; 155 oz. 10 dwt. (4,844 grams).

Sold $30,000 Christie's auctions

ENGLISH SILVER PEDESTAL TAZZA
MARK OF BENJAMIN PYNE, LONDON, 1679
Circular, on circular trumpet foot, with gadrooned moldings, the center engraved with coat-of-arms within a baroque cartouche, marked on field

7½ in. (18.8 cm.) diameter; 8 oz. (261 grams).

Sold $5,000 Christie's auctions

ENGLISH SILVER TEA CADDY SUITE
MARK OF WILLIAM TUITE, LONDON, 1757
Circular, on circular trumpet foot, with gadrooned moldings, the center engraved with coat-of-arms within a baroque cartouche, marked on fieldIn the Chinoserie taste, comprising a pair of tea caddies and a sugar box, each rectangular, the sugar box depicting the 'tea picker' motif, the tea caddies depicting a exotic queen beneath an umbrella, each caddy with vacant cartouche, each hinged cover with squirrel finial, marked under each base and cover, Britania standard.

6 in. (15 cm.) and 6½ in. (16.3 cm.) high; 32 oz. (996 grams) gross weight (3).

Sold $6,000 Christie's auctions

MALTESE SILVER LIBRARY OIL LAMP
MARK OF GIOACCHINO LEBRUN, DE ROHAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1780
Fluted baluster form with three oil reservoirs and adjustable reflector, with three fittings, extinguisher, spike and tweezers dependent, the pedestal base with large bead border and rim of "C" scrolls.

24½ in. (62.5 cm.) high.

Sold £37,250 Christie's auctions

MALTESE SILVER SUGAR BOWL
MARK OF ALOISIO TROISI, DE ROHAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1780
Inverted pear shape on three hoof feet, spirally fluted and chased with scrolls, top of cover and underside of base chased with foliage, rim of body engraved with contemporary initials G.B.

5¼ in. (12.2 cm.) high 8 oz. (248 grams).

Sold £2,500 Christie's auctions

MALTESE SILVER COFFEE POT
MARK OF NICOLAS DE MARTINEZ, PINTO PERIOD, CIRCA 1770
Fluted baluster form on three hoof feet, flower finial, ebonised wood handle with rosette junctions, spout chased with rococo decoration to front and capped with a lion mask, scroll thumbpiece.

9 in. high (22.8 cm.) 21.5 cm. (666 grams).

Sold £8,750 Christie's auctions

ENGLISH SILVER 5 BOTTLED CRUET
MARK OF ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, ONE CASTER WITH MARK OF JOHN DELMESTER, LONDON, 1760
The cinquefoil frame on four shell and scroll feet, with a central ring handle, fitted with one large and two smaller casters, and two cut-glass bottles with silver covers, the frame with a rococo cartouche engraved with a coat-of-arms, the handle, casters and stoppers with crest, marked under frame, on handle, each caster marked on base and cover bezel, the bottle covers marked on side.

10 in. (25.4 cm.) high gross weight, 55 oz. 9 dwt. (1,724 grams).

Sold £4,375 Christie's auctions

ENGLISH SILVER LIDDED TANKARD
MARK OF COLIN MCKENZIE, EDINBURGH, 1708
Plain tapering cylindrical and on spreading foot, the scroll handle with applied rib, the hinged domed cover with baluster finial and corkscrew and foliate scroll thumbpiece, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms with earl's coronet above and crest beneath and later memorial inscription, marked under base, the cover apparently unmarked

7¾ in. (19.5 cm.) high 39 oz. (1,243 grams).

Sold £16,250 Christie's auctions

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