A pewter spire flagon, the tapering body with reeded bands, inscribed and dated John Fryer 1717, on a spreading wide foot, the scroll handle with plume thumbpiece and shield shaped terminal, the domed and stepped cover with knop finial, with blundered touch to the base, English, mid-18th century -- 12¾in. (32.4cm.) high.

細節

A pewter spire flagon, the tapering body with reeded bands, inscribed and dated John Fryer 1717, on a spreading wide foot, the scroll handle with plume thumbpiece and shield shaped terminal, the domed and stepped cover with knop finial, with blundered touch to the base, English, mid-18th century -- 12¾in. (32.4cm.) high.

出版

Howard Herschell Cotterell, Old Pewter its Makers and Marks, B.T.Batsford Ltd, London, page 178, index 888, a similar example is illustrated plate XLII, e. Sir John Fryer, page 212, index 1791.

拍品專文

The blundered touch to the base with a rose and thistle below W.____, possibly of William Charlesly, London.

The inscription on the present flagon probably relates to that of Sir John Fryer who was Master of the Pewter Company in 1710 and again in 1715. The flagon was possibly made as a gift to him by William Charlesly in 1717.