A stoneware silver-mounted inscribed and dated armorial tankard

1728, LONDON

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A stoneware silver-mounted inscribed and dated armorial tankard
1728, London
With grooved loop handle, applied with a 'Punch Party' in a columned cartouche flanked by the name EDMUND GILES with the date 1728 below surrounded by four flowerheads and two stylised palm-trees, the lower part with a stag-hunt, the handle flanked by the arms of the Worshipful Company of Butchers and a cow being slaughtered, the mounts engraved with stylised flowerheads within punched lozenge-shaped cartouches (probably reduced, cracks to one side, slight damages to sprigging and pieces lacking, slight footrim chips)
8½in. (21.5cm.) high

拍品专文

Cf. Robin Hildyard, op. cit., no. 111, which is dated for 1729 and is also applied with a 'Punch Party' of a type which is not derived from Hogarth's 'Midnight Modern Conversation'. See also Robin Hildyard, ibid, no. 110, which is applied with the Butcher's Arms.