Lot 219
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AN ELIZABETH I SILVER-GILT MOUNTED TIGER-WARE JUG, the spreading circular foot mount stamped with stylised fruit, the box hinge and neck mounts engraved with stylised scrolling foliage and engraved strapwork, the domed cover with winged mermaid and cornucopia thumbpiece and chased with masks and fruits and with baluster finial, 1573, maker's mark a millrind, mullet below

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AN ELIZABETH I SILVER-GILT MOUNTED TIGER-WARE JUG, the spreading circular foot mount stamped with stylised fruit, the box hinge and neck mounts engraved with stylised scrolling foliage and engraved strapwork, the domed cover with winged mermaid and cornucopia thumbpiece and chased with masks and fruits and with baluster finial, 1573, maker's mark a millrind, mullet below
8½in (21.5cm) high

For the same maker's mark see Jackson, Ian Pickford ed., p.98

Lot Essay

An old label on the base of the jug sugests the maker of the mounts to be William Wyxson

An almost identical thumbpiece is illustrated in Phillippa Glanville, Silver in Tudor and Early Stuart England, 1990 ,p.425

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