A LARGE SUNDERLAND BRIDGE RUMMER, the bucket bowl engraved with sailing ships passing beneath the Iron Bridge within a rectangular cartouche and inscribed in diamond-point Foundation Stone laid Sepr 24 1793 A View of the Stupendous Iron Bridge over the River Wear near Sunderland Span 236 Ft/Heigt 100 do /Cast Iron tons 214/Wrot 46 Opened Augt 9th 1796, the reverse with a crest below the motto I MEAN WELL on a ribbon cartouche within a circular sunburst within a floral swag with flowering thistle terminals pendant from pataræ, on a short spreading stem and square lemon-squeezer base (chips to angles of base), circa 1800

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A LARGE SUNDERLAND BRIDGE RUMMER, the bucket bowl engraved with sailing ships passing beneath the Iron Bridge within a rectangular cartouche and inscribed in diamond-point Foundation Stone laid Sepr 24 1793 A View of the Stupendous Iron Bridge over the River Wear near Sunderland Span 236 Ft/Heigt 100 do /Cast Iron tons 214/Wrot 46 Opened Augt 9th 1796, the reverse with a crest below the motto I MEAN WELL on a ribbon cartouche within a circular sunburst within a floral swag with flowering thistle terminals pendant from pataræ, on a short spreading stem and square lemon-squeezer base (chips to angles of base), circa 1800
21.5cm. high
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's, 4 June 1985, lot 77

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