Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 3

Day 3 - 2nd November: Lots 2401 - 2757

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Day 3 comprises silver hollowware, objects of vertu, Scottish and Irish silver, Post War silver and further Private Collections.  The first private collection of the day is 28 lots of mainly Victorian silver bird pepper pots and highlights the 19th century fascination with the novelty.  The pepper pots are cast as birds, ranging from sparrows, parrots, a kingfisher, cockerel, various owls and most notably two modelled as possibly an auk or rockhopper penguin, with many set with glass eyes.

Arts & Crafts and Modern silver is always popular, and a feature of the day is a private collection of silver, with silver by Omar Ramsden, Christopher Lawrence Robert Catterson-Smith, Leslie Durbin and other notable makers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The sale concluded with a Private Collection of silver.  Particular highlights are mustard pots including a Victorian Mr Punch, by Charles Stuart Harris, London 1868, with an estimate of £2,000-3,000, snuff boxes, Irish silver and objects of vertu.  The final two lots of the sale, and included in the collection, are a William and Mary silver beaker, by John Duck, London 1689, estimate £2,000-3,000, and lastly a George II silver waiter, by Paul de Lamerie, London 1744, estimate £3,000-4,000.