AN ENGLISH PEWTER FLAGON
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AN ENGLISH PEWTER FLAGON

BY JOHN EMES SENIOR, CIRCA 1680

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AN ENGLISH PEWTER FLAGON
BY JOHN EMES SENIOR, CIRCA 1680
With a stepped cover, knop and twin cusp thumbpiece of Beefeater type, the drum hammered in distinctive style, and on skirt base in the style of Charles I, touch of maker on handle (O.P.1566), a scratched ownership under base 'Kirby Fleetham Church', 80 fl.oz capacity
11¾in. (29.8cm.) high overall
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Lot Essay

John Emes father and son specialised in flagons to their own design with distinctive hammered drums, they are rare perhaps ten to twenty known. For similar see The Worshipful Company of Pewterers of London, catalogue No.S2.204.
For similar examples see Hornsby, Pewter of the Western World, Fig. 649; Peal, Pewter of Great Britain, p.89-90. and British Pewter, plate 7 opp p.64.

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