BY EDWARD LEAPIDGE OF LONDON, CIRCA 1730

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A PAIR OF ENGLISH PEWTER ROSEWATER DISHES
BY EDWARD LEAPIDGE OF LONDON, CIRCA 1730
Each with two rows of punch decoration to the border and a hammered booge into lobed petals, the central boss also hammered into petal lobes and a further row of punched flowers in a well, one marked with two pairs of ownership initials 'WC' over 'EC', the other with the initials 'AP', touch under well (O.P.2874)
16 5/8in. (42.2cm.) (2)

Provenance

Peal collection.
Purchased from Robin Bellamy.

Literature

Peal British Pewter, 1971, Fig. 58.
Hornsby, Pewter of the Western World, No.70
Journal of the Pewter Society, Spring 1987 and Spring 1988.
Michaelis, Decoration on English Pewterware, The Antique Collector, August 1964.

Exhibited

Reading Museum, 1969, No. 156/7

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Lot Essay

For similar compare with one in the Colonial Williamsburg, No.74 one of a small number of known decorated dishes which John Davis believes were made to resemble Nuremberg brass alms dishes. Another pair are in the Worshipful Company of Pewterers Collection No.117

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