Each rectangular with cut corners, engraved throughout in the Chinoiserie taste with figures in architectural ruins surrounded by exotic foliage and fantastical birds, with screw-off domed covers and removable pierced stoppers, marked on base with maker's mark only
6¹⁄₂ in. (16.5 cm.) high
27 oz. 14 dwt. (861 gr.)

The Collection of the Late Sir John Prestige; Sotheby's, London, 17 April 1989, lot 307.
The Jaime Ortiz-Patiño Collection: English 17th Century Chinoiserie Silver; Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 1992, lot 153.

David M. Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London: Their Lives and Their Marks, Suffolk, 2017, pp. 266-267.

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Lot Essay

Isaac Dighton was a prolific and accomplished silversmith. The majority of his work is decorated in the Chinoiserie style which developed following the establishment of the East India Company in 1600, reaching its height at the end of the 17th century. A silver-gilt dressing table service with a similar pair of cannisters also marked for Dighton was sold at Christie's, London, 16 July 2010, lot 50.