Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 16 March 2015
Jewellery, English Silver, Furniture, Decorative Arts and Oriental Carpets
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About this Item
A George III silver snuffer tray, Elizabeth Cooke, London, 1771, and a pair of Sheffield close-plated candle snuffers, J Gilbert, 1812
the tray of hourglass form engraved with a crest and enclosed by a gadrooned and foliate border, scroll thumbpiece, on four leaf-shaped pad feet, 210g, 20,5cm wide, the candle snuffers of scissor form and embossed with foliage, the end of the blades with some distortion, some plating loss, stamped maker's mark, 18,5cm long