LONDON, 1650, MAKER'S MARK AN ORB SURMOUNTED BY A STAR PROBABLY, FOR ROBERT GREGORY

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A COMMONWEALTH SILVER TANKARD
LONDON, 1650, MAKER'S MARK AN ORB SURMOUNTED BY A STAR PROBABLY, FOR ROBERT GREGORY
Tapering cylindrical on spreading skirt foot, with bifurcated thumbpiece, engraved underneath with initials 'I.C', marked on cover and body
5 ¼ in. (13 cm.) high
25 oz. 6 dwt. (787 gr.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale [ Messrs Vander and Hedges], Christie's, London, 3 July 1894, lot 142, [£43 to S. J. Phillips].
Another Property; Sotheby's, London, 6 February 1986, lot 205.

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Lot Essay

The mark is recorded by Dr. David Mitchell, in his work Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London Their Marks and Their Lives, Woodbridge, 2017, pp. 613-614, where the mark is attributed to Robert Gregory. The son of a Barnabus Gregory, goldsmith of London, Robert Gregory was made free of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1629.

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