拍品 383
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A RARE ENGRAVED PEWTER BOWL, POSSIBLY A FONT BOWL
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A RARE ENGRAVED PEWTER BOWL, POSSIBLY A FONT BOWL

EUROPEAN, PROBABLY LATE 16TH OR 17TH CENTURY

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A RARE ENGRAVED PEWTER BOWL, POSSIBLY A FONT BOWL
EUROPEAN, PROBABLY LATE 16TH OR 17TH CENTURY
The rim deeply engraved with interlaced strapwork and scrolling palmettes and rosettes, the deep well lightly line engraved with a radiating petal design of half-moon segments
18in. (46cm.) diameter
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The present lot could be by the same hand as a bowl believed by Christopher Peal to be Anglo-Saxon. In his book, British Pewter, 1971, he describes his bowl as 'possibly one of the earliest entire pieces of purely British pewter. A font bowl bearing late Anglo-Saxon decoration carried out in their technique' (fig, 20 p.83). The Peal bowl is now in the V & A Museum catalogued by Anthony North as 'Western European, about 1600.' Pewter at the V & A, No 46. p.71. He considers the design to be a debased Islamic design originating from Veneto-Saracenic wares of the sixteenth century. He says that in the past the bowl was considered to be Anglo-Saxon or Scottish.