LONDON, 1661, MAKER'S MARK IW A TUN BELOW, PROBABLY FOR JOHN WINTERTON

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A CHARLES II SILVER PORRINGER, COVER AND LARGE TAZZA
LONDON, 1661, MAKER'S MARK IW A TUN BELOW, PROBABLY FOR JOHN WINTERTON
The tazza circular, on plain trumpet-form foot, the wide border embossed and chased with full-blown flowers and foliage amongst prick engraved scrolls, spaced by three lobes within acanthus cartouches, later engraved three times with crest and with a coat-of-arms flanked by crossed scrolls below a tied ribbon, the underside of foot later engraved with an inscription, the porringer and cover similarly chased, each side with cartouche, one engraved with a coat-of-arms, the other vacant, with scroll handles capped with caryatids, the domed cover with two vacant cartouches, double mask-form finial, the tazza marked on rim, the foot with lion passant, the porringer marked under base and cover, with associated fitted wood and red velvet lined case
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) high, 15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) diameter, the tazza, 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high, 9 ½ in. (24.1 cm.) wide over handles, the cup and cover

The arms are those of Adderley, for Boyer Adderley (1704/5-1747), of Hams Hall, co. Warwick.

The later inscription reads 'The gift of Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, to Bowyer Adderley Esqr., his Godson'.

Provenance

Given to Boyer Adderley (1704/5-1747), of Hams Hall, co. Warwick by his godfather Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield (1634-1714) and then by descent to his great grandson
Charles Bowyer Adderley, 1st Baron Norton (1814-1905) and then by descent to his son Charles Adderley, 2nd Baron Norton (1846-1926).
A Nobleman [Lord Norton]; Christie's London, 8 June 1909, lot 57 (£1,015 to Garrard).

Lot Essay

The mark, recorded by I. Pickford (Jackson’s Goldsmiths and Their Marks, Woodbridge, 1989) on page 120, line 1, as both tun below and woolsack below has been attributed to John Winterton by Dr David Mitchell, in his new work Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London Their Marks and Their Lives, Woodbridge, 2017, pp. 405-406. Winterton, originally from Leicestershire, was apprenticed to to Daniel Wormleighton, becoming free in 1642. During the course of his career he had a number of apprentices including John Sutton and John Deighton.

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