With the punch-bowl an end practically is made of silver vessels for drinking. The sovereignty of glass was now established. Porcelain and even earthenware had made inroads into the silversmith’s domain. The age of modernity was at hand.
[Illustration: “MONTEITH” PUNCH BOWL. LONDON, 1704.
Higher Standard Marks and Maker, Andrew Fogelberg.
(_By courtesy of Messrs. Elkington & Co._)]
Prices are always problematical. Specimens vary according to state, and other factors determining the price per ounce at which they are sold. Some of the following prices obtained at auction may be of interest to readers:--
These are among the most sumptuous pieces of English silver. Prices always range high.
£ Tudor cup, 6 oz. 15 dwt. (1525) 880 “ on foot, 14 oz. 3 dwts. (1521) 4,130@ ” and cover (James I) (1640), 66 oz. 4,000@ Standing cup, Charles I, 470s. per oz. 82 “ Charles II, 1 oz. 13 dwts., 520s. per oz. 42@ Loving-cup, Charles II (1678), 170s. per oz. 69 ” William and Mary (1688), 165s. per oz. 88@ “ Queen Anne (1703), 120s. per oz. 140@@
James I tankard (1504) 1,720 Elizabethan tankard and cover (1599), 21 oz. 15 dwt. (a record price) 2,300 Elizabethan (Huth sale) (1573) 1,700 Charles I plain tankard (1629), 750s. per oz. 667 Plain tankard; York; maker, Marmaduke Best (1671), 195s. per oz. 234 Commonwealth (1649), maker AF., 290s. per oz. 413
The range of prices is: Commonwealth, about £20 per oz.; Charles II, £8 to £10 per oz.; William and Mary, £4 per oz.; Anne, £2 per oz.; George I, 20s. per oz.
£ Henry VII, silver-gilt (1496), 6 oz. 16 dwt. sold in 1902 1,270 Elizabethan (1599), 490s. per oz. 197 Charles I (1635), 315s. per oz. 73 Charles II (1662), 290s. per oz. 46 William III (1699), 170s. per oz. 66
£ Elizabethan goblet, 7 oz., 530s. per oz. 188 Charles I, wine cup (1638), 3 oz. 14 dwts. 88 Commonwealth Goblet (1650); maker, HS., 800s. per oz. 118
William III “Monteith” (1701), 100s. per oz. 398 Queen Anne “Monteith” (1705), 70s. per oz. 267 Punch-bowl (1750), 23s. per oz. 15
[3] These initials, found on a James II mug, with the date letter for 1685, are illustrated p. 369.
Early salt cellars--The standing salt--The hour-glass form--The bell-shaped salt--The seventeenth century--octagonal and circular types--The eighteenth century--trencher salts--Tripod salts--The openwork style with glass liner--The evolution of form in the salt cellar of the later periods.