WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 5 MAY 2018

Silver & Jewellery 389 Six silver trophy cups, unengraved. A set of four 1950s silver, two-handled trophy cups, Birmingham, 1950; together with two early 20th century silver two-handled trophy cups, Birmingham, 1934 and London, 1926, Also three unengraved, hallmarked silver milk jugs 23oz troy (730g). (9) Estimate €150-€200 approx (£130-£170 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 389 388 Irish silver miniature statue of William III. A silver representation of Grinling Gibbons’ equestrian statue, which stood on College Green until its demolition by the IRA in 1928, the plinth engraved, ‘1690 - The Glorious Pious and Immortal Memory’, hallmarks rubbed except for Hibernia fineness mark. On Connemara marble plinth. Total height 3.25in. (8.3cm) Finorty, John. Ireland In Pictures. J. S. Hyland & Co, Chicago, 1898, includes a photograph of Grinling Gibbons’ equestrian statue with the comment, ‘This equestrian statue of William III stands in College Green, and has stood there, more or less, since A.D 1701. We say “more or less” because no statue in the world, perhaps, has been subject to so many vicissitudes. It has been insulted, mutilated and blown up so many times, that the original figure, never particularly graceful, is now a battered wreck, pieced and patched together, like an old, worn out garment.’ Estimate €100-€150 approx (£90-£130 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 388

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