Lot Essay
This dish, probably an alms or rosewater dish, is very rare to be decorated with straight line engraving as opposed to wrigglework and rare to be geometric as opposed to heraldic or naturalistic.
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SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Details
A RARE ELIZABETHAN PEWTER DISH WITH LINE ENGRAVED DECORATION
SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
With sloping sides and central boss, the bowl engraved with geometric patterns, punched initials 'MAB', touch of crowned monarch's head and the initials '?R' under rim
14½in. (37cm.)
SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
With sloping sides and central boss, the bowl engraved with geometric patterns, punched initials 'MAB', touch of crowned monarch's head and the initials '?R' under rim
14½in. (37cm.)
Provenance
R.F. Michaelis collection.
Literature
Museum of London 1989, Pewter, A celebration of the craft, No.119
Michaelis, Decoration on English pewterware, Antique Collector 1963.
Michaelis, Decoration on English pewterware, Antique Collector 1963.
Exhibited
Usher Art Gallery, 1962, No.238
Reading Museum, 1969, No.28
Reading Museum, 1969, No.28
Special notice
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