LONDON, 1685, MAKER'S MARK IA IN SCRIPT MONOGRAM, PROBABLY FOR JOHN AUSTIN

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A JAMES II SILVER TANKARD
LONDON, 1685, MAKER'S MARK IA IN SCRIPT MONOGRAM, PROBABLY FOR JOHN AUSTIN
Plain tapering cylindrical on moulded rim foot, with scroll handle and corkscrew thumbpiece, engraved with a coat-of-arms within a foliage cartouche, the base later engraved with initials 'N.I', marked on body, cover and handle
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high
28 oz. 16 dwt. (896 gr.)
The arms are those of Wade impaling Dunch, for Thomas Wade (d.1715) of Frampton-on-Severn, co. Gloucester and his wife Anna (d.1687), daughter of John Dunch of Pusey, co. Berks. Their marriage and arms are recorded on a memorial raised in memory to Anna in St. Mary’s Church, Frampton-on-Severn. Thomas’ will, proved in 1716, leaves all of his estate and chattels to his only child John. His grandson is bequeathed his 'silver bason [sic]’.

Provenance

Thomas Wade (d.1715) of Frampton-on-Severn, co. Gloucester.

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Lot Essay

The mark is recorded in D. Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, Their Lives and Their Marks, Woodbridge, 2017, p. 342, where Mitchell notes that Austin apprenticed to John Deighton gaining his freedom in 1678. He records a tankard of the same date as the present example and illustrates a chinoiseire tankard, op. cit., p. 341, fig. 167.

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