A CHARLES II PLAIN TAPERING CYLINDRICAL TANKARD, on moulded rim foot and with scroll handle, slightly hinged domed cover and double lobed thumbpiece, the cover engraved with a coat-of-arms within foliate scroll mantling, the body with the inscription "Edm - Jennings Junior/Donum aviae meae Domae - Frances Barkam de Tottenham high-crosse in Comitatu Middle, quae obijt - 9 diae July Anno Domi - 1667", circa 1667, date letter indistinct, maker's mark DR
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A CHARLES II PLAIN TAPERING CYLINDRICAL TANKARD, on moulded rim foot and with scroll handle, slightly hinged domed cover and double lobed thumbpiece, the cover engraved with a coat-of-arms within foliate scroll mantling, the body with the inscription "Edm - Jennings Junior/Donum aviae meae Domae - Frances Barkam de Tottenham high-crosse in Comitatu Middle, quae obijt - 9 diae July Anno Domi - 1667", circa 1667, date letter indistinct, maker's mark DR
5¾in. (14.7cm.)
(19ozs.)
Lot Essay
For the same maker's mark see Jackson, Ian Pickford ed., p.129