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Lot 70

A pair of William III cast silver candlesticks
probably Benjamin Braford, London 1695 (2)

29 November 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £7,650 inc. premium

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A pair of William III cast silver candlesticks

probably Benjamin Braford, London 1695
Knopped baluster form with broad knops, spool shaped nozzles, welled shaped-square bases with canted corners, height 15cm, weight 23.8oz. (2)

Footnotes

Property of a private collector

The maker's mark appears to be 'BB, crescent below, in shaped device', for the maker's mark see David M Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2017, pages 241-242. Also Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks, published 1989, 1996 edition, page 141 [BB, crescent below]

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