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A PAIR OF CHARLES II SILVER-GILT TOILET BOXES, MAKER'S MARK A M IN MONOGRAM CROWNED, PROBABLY FOR ARTHUR MANWARIN, LONDON, CIRCA 1680

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November 20, 10:09 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

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A PAIR OF CHARLES II SILVER-♑GILT TOILET BOXES

MAKER'S MARK🌌 A M IN MONOGRAM CROWNED, PROBABLY FOR ARTH✨UR MANWARIN, LONDON

CIRCA 1680


circular, the slip-on cove🍬rs embossed and chased with complementary scenes of standing figures of Venus and Adonis, in Roman armor, exchanging 𝐆an arrow, with a seated hound between, the sides embossed with putti in scrolling acanthus

maker’s mark only struck inside bases and on rims of covers

29 oz

901.9 g

diameter 5 in.

10.7 cm

These boxes match ones with the same scenes by the same maker, part of a toilet set, sold Christie’s, Geneva, November 14, 1978, illus. Christie’s Pictorial History of English and American Silver, color pl. p.79. The playful putti among acanthus may be derived from designs by Polifilo Zancarli. They appear also on toilets boxes and flasks marked by Jacob Bodendick and maker’s mark WF knot above (William Fowle). William Fowle was apprenticed to Arthur Mainwaring, his uncle, and  is known to have supplied  eleven toilet services between 1681 and his premature death in 1684 (See David M. Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, 2017, p.166).