A GEORGE III TANKARD, London, 1790, body and cover with maker's mark of George Gray; on cover overstruck by Peter & John Bateman, tapering cylindrical on spreading foot, with applied molded mid-rib, the front engraved with monogram within rocaille cartouche within trailing foliate surround, the round-hinge stepped and flat-topped domed cover with openwork escheon thumpiece to the tubular scroll handle, terminating in heart--7¾in. (19.6cm.) high, 22oz. | Christie's

Lot 95

A GEORGE III TANKARD, London, 1790, body and cover with maker's mark of George Gray; on cover overstruck by Peter & John Bateman, tapering cylindrical on spreading foot, with applied molded mid-rib, the front engraved with monogram within rocaille cartouche within trailing foliate surround, the round-hinge stepped and flat-topped domed cover with openwork escheon thumpiece to the tubular scroll handle, terminating in heart--7¾in. (19.6cm.) high, 22oz.

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A GEORGE III TANKARD, London, 1790, body and cover with maker's mark of George Gray; on cover overstruck by Peter & John Bateman, tapering cylindrical on spreading foot, with applied molded mid-rib, the front engraved with monogram within rocaille cartouche within trailing foliate surround, the round-hinge stepped and flat-topped domed cover with openwork escheon thumpiece to the tubular scroll handle, terminating in heart--7¾in. (19.6cm.) high, 22oz.

Lot Essay

"George Gray (often overstruck on the work of Hester Bateman, and Peter and Ann Bateman). Jackson, 1989 ed., p. 221, no. 9.

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