Lot 200
200
A CHARLES II SILVER-GILT TWO-HANDLED PORRINGER, on moulded rim rim foot and with double scroll handles the side engraved with a Latin inscription 'Legatum Amicissimi Reverandissimi in Christo Patris Thomas Nuper Cantuar. Archiepi.', by Robert Smythier, 1678

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A CHARLES II SILVER-GILT TWO-HANDLED PORRINGER, on moulded rim rim foot and with double scroll handles the side engraved with a Latin inscription 'Legatum Amicissimi Reverandissimi in Christo Patris Thomas Nuper Cantuar. Archiepi.', by Robert Smythier, 1678
3½in. (9cm.) high
(19ozs.)
Provenance
Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury
Dr Charles Trimnall, Bishop of Norwich, his wife Elizabeth and thence by descent in the Winn family

Lot Essay

Robert Smythier, who became free of the Goldsmith's Company in 1660, was one of the most prolific goldsmiths of the 17th century, and one of the most accomplished. He was closely associated with Sir Robert Viner (1631-1688), Royal Goldsmith to Charles II, and supplied large quantities of plate to the Jewel House. Perhaps his best known surviving work is the set of six wall sconces, surmounted by Royal Crowns, circa 1660, in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen

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