A FINE COMMONMWEALTH SILVER SWEETMEAT DISH

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A FINE COMMONMWEALTH SILVER SWEETMEAT DISH
London, 1650, maker's mark IH or TH in monogram

Shaped oval and on plain spreading foot, with broad scalloped border, chased with panels of stylised flowers on a matted ground, the centre engraved with a coat-of-arms within a beaded oval cartouche, a further coat-of-arms and initials IPW and twice with the initials SW, marked on rim and foot - 10in. 25.5cm.) long.
10ozs. (323grs.)

For the same maker's mark see Jackson, Ian Pickford ed., p.120

The central coat-of-arms are those of Wilson for William Wilson of Welbourne, Co. Lincolnshire, impaling another, probably Thorpe, Somers or Barnardiston. The Wilson arms were granted on the 24th of March 1586. The second coat-of-arms are those of Winslow with a label of three points overall, the cadency mark for an eldest son in the lifetime of his father.

Provenance

Mallet and Son Ltd, invoice dated 26 August 1942 for #540

Lot Essay

A sweetmeat box and cover made by Edward Winslow of Boston, Massachussets, circa 1685, bearing the arms of Winslow, is illustrated in C. J. Jackson, An Illustrated History of English Plate, London, 1911, opp. p.832.

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