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LONDON, 1580, MAKER'S MARK A HOOK IN SHAPED CARTOUCHE
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AN ELIZABETH I SILVER-GILT MOUNTED TIGERWARE JUG
LONDON, 1580, MAKER'S MARK A HOOK IN SHAPED CARTOUCHE
The baluster mottled brown stoneware body with lion mask and fruit chased mounts, the hinged cover similarly chased and with a baluster finial, marked under foot, on neck mount and cover
10 in. (25.3 cm.) high
LONDON, 1580, MAKER'S MARK A HOOK IN SHAPED CARTOUCHE
The baluster mottled brown stoneware body with lion mask and fruit chased mounts, the hinged cover similarly chased and with a baluster finial, marked under foot, on neck mount and cover
10 in. (25.3 cm.) high
Provenance
By tradition and as recorded in C. Jackson, op. cit, in the possession of a Mrs. Frances Jefferson by 1582, a servant of Queen Elizabeth I and by descent to female heirs bearing her name until there being no heir named Frances, it was sold in 1801 to
William Wilson (d.1833) F.S.A. of The Minories in the City of London.
Stuart Montagu Samuel M.P. (1856-1926), later 1st Baronet, nephew of Samuel, 1st Baron Swaythling.
A Gentleman [Stuart M. Samuel M.P.]; Christie’s, London, 28 June 1905, lot 73 (£500 to Crichton].
with Crichton Brothers.
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951),
The Hearst Collection; Parke Bernet, New York, 7 January 1939, lot 274.
William Wilson (d.1833) F.S.A. of The Minories in the City of London.
Stuart Montagu Samuel M.P. (1856-1926), later 1st Baronet, nephew of Samuel, 1st Baron Swaythling.
A Gentleman [Stuart M. Samuel M.P.]; Christie’s, London, 28 June 1905, lot 73 (£500 to Crichton].
with Crichton Brothers.
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951),
The Hearst Collection; Parke Bernet, New York, 7 January 1939, lot 274.
Literature
C. Jackson, The History of English Plate, London, 1911, p. 777, fig. 1009.
E. R. Du Parcq, Art in America, ‘Old English Silver in American Private Collections’, New York, 1919, vol. 7 p. 14.
P. Glanville, Silver in England, London, 1987, p. 323.
E. R. Du Parcq, Art in America, ‘Old English Silver in American Private Collections’, New York, 1919, vol. 7 p. 14.
P. Glanville, Silver in England, London, 1987, p. 323.
Exhibited
London, The New Gallery, The Royal House of Tudor, 1889, no. 1889 [Stuart Montagu Samuel].
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