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BY THE MAKER PIERRE DU ROUSSEAU, CIRCA 1720'S
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A QUART JERSEY LIDDED FLAGON
BY THE MAKER PIERRE DU ROUSSEAU, CIRCA 1720'S
With touch to the flat cover and the initials 'EP' engraved to handle , the body with bands of turning
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high overall
And an unlidded Jersey measure circa 1800, with a type 'C' verification seal, 10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) high
BY THE MAKER PIERRE DU ROUSSEAU, CIRCA 1720'S
With touch to the flat cover and the initials 'EP' engraved to handle , the body with bands of turning
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high overall
And an unlidded Jersey measure circa 1800, with a type 'C' verification seal, 10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) high
Provenance
The lidded flagon from the collection of Stanley Woolmer. It is only one of three recorded examples of this pewterers' work by the author and the only certain one by Rousseau in this size.
Literature
Stanley Woolmer, Pewter of the Channel Islands,1973, fig XXXI and pages 116 and 140
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