LONDON, 1655, MAKER'S MARK IH OR TH IN MONOGRAM

Details

A Commonwealth silver porringer and cover
London, 1655, maker's mark IH or TH in monogram
Slightly tapering cylindrical on spreading circular foot, with two double-scroll handles, the body chased with a frieze of scrolls and flowers on a partly-matted ground, the flat cover similarly decorated and with button finial, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked under base and on cover
6½in. (16.5cm.) high
24oz. (761gr.)
For the same maker's mark see Jackson, Ian Pickford ed., p.120

The arms are those of Fletcher impaling Hare for Sir George Fletcher, 2nd Bt. of Hutton, co. Cumberland and his wife Alice, daughter of 1st Baron Coleraine (1606-1661), whom he married in 1654/5.

Provenance

With Thomas Lumley Ltd.
With Mallet and Son Ltd., invoice dated 22 September 1941 for £285
Sir Peter Wills 3rd Bt. (d.1945) and then by descent

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The rare form of this porringer is reminiscent of the tankards of the period with the distinctive 'skirt' foot. A similar porringer and cover of 1657 is in the collection of Peterhouse College, Cambridge, illustrated in R. A. Crichton, Cambridge Plate, Cambridge, 1975, p.38. An earlier example of 1655 was in the Swaything Collection, sold Christie's London, 6 May 1924, lot 88.

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