Lot Essay
Sold Sotheby's Billingshurst 9th February 1978 lot 119 from a wreck. Compare with the 'Tong Castle' spice plate in the Worshipful Company of Pewterers Collection No. 125
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CIRCA 1500
Details
AN ENGLISH PEWTER BROAD-RIMMED SAUCER OR SPICE PLATE
CIRCA 1500
The rim struck with the letters 'W.A.' in Lombardic script, also with a possible crowned hammer, an indistinct touch adverso possibly of a stag motif, a raised central boss, excavated with nature's gilding
7 3/8in. (18.6cm.)
CIRCA 1500
The rim struck with the letters 'W.A.' in Lombardic script, also with a possible crowned hammer, an indistinct touch adverso possibly of a stag motif, a raised central boss, excavated with nature's gilding
7 3/8in. (18.6cm.)
Literature
Museum of London 1989, Pewter, A celebration of the craft, No.29
Hornsby, Pewter, Copper and Brass, 1981, Fig.22.
Hornsby, Pewter, Copper and Brass, 1981, Fig.22.
Special notice
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