PROBABLY MAASTRICHT, CIRCA 1750-1770

細節

A pair of Dutch pewter tankards
Probably Maastricht, circa 1750-1770
Each with hinged lid attached to the handle, the bulbous body on a spreading circular base, marked with a crowned Tudor rose containing a five pointed star to the inside of the lid
25.5cm. high and 9.5cm. diam. (2)

注意事項

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

拍品專文

Before 1550 Maastricht was one of the first cities in the Northern Netherlands that made the rose mark for pure English pewter compulsory. As appears from a resolution of 30th July 1544 for the "cremersambacht" in Maastricht one of the tinmen offered to make pewter of soe goeden stouff als Engels thien metter roesen. The municipal government decided therefore that other tinmen should follow this example. Pewter should be signed metter teykenen vander roesen ende daerinne gestampt der stadt starre. (RA Limburg, Register van Statuten, reglementen enz. voor het cremersambacht, inv.arch. Maastrichtse ambachten, nr. 17).
Literature:
B. Dubbe, Tin en tinnegieters in Nederland, Lochem, 1978, p. 109.

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