CIRCA 1610-12

Details

A RARE ENGLISH RELIEF CAST PEWTER BEAKER
CIRCA 1610-12
The tapering body with decoration of roundels with marigolds, flowers and crowns, the roundels inset with Prince of Wales feathers and the motto 'ICH DIEN', restoration and losses
5 5/8in. (14.2cm.) high

Provenance

Minchin collection.

Literature

Museum of London 1989, Pewter, A celebration of the craft, No.112
Hornsby, Pewter of the Western World, No.122.
Michaelis, Antique Pewter of the British Isles, Fig.82.

Exhibited

Harvard House Museum, Stratford, Pewter and the British Monarchy.

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Lot Essay

This beaker was found in a well at Hurstbourne Tarrant. It is believed that these beakers were made to commemorate the investiture of Henry, eldest son of James I who was invested as Prince of Wales in 1610 and died 1612.
Another beaker of this type is in the Worshipful Company of Pewterers, No.303 and a third in the V & A, see Tony North, Pewter at the Victoria and Albert Museum, No.33. and a fourth in the Museum of London.
The fashion for relief cast decorated pewter in England was brief. It spread from Italian designs of the late 16th Century and by makers such as Francois Briot of Lyons and Caspar Enderlein of Nuremberg.

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