A WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER-GILT TAZZA
A WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER-GILT TAZZA

LONDON, 1690, MAKER'S MARK P CROWNED, PROBABLY FOR BENJAMIN PYNE

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A WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER-GILT TAZZA
LONDON, 1690, MAKER'S MARK P CROWNED, PROBABLY FOR BENJAMIN PYNE
On trumpet-shaped foot with gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked near rim and under foot
11 1/8 in. (28 cm.) diameter
21 oz. 2 dwt. (661 gr.)
The arms are those of Fetherston, presumably for Sir Heneage Fetherston (c.1628-1711), 1st Baronet of Blackesware, Co. Hertford. Heneage Fetherson purchased from John King the estate of Blackesware in the county of Hertford and was created a baronet by King Charles II on the 4 December 1660. Sir Heneage married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Bennet, Baronet of Babraham in Cambridgeshire, and had a large family.

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