LONDON, 1670. MAKER'S MARK TM ABOVE A CORONET, POSSIBLY FOR THOMAS MINSHALL

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A CHARLES II SILVER BASIN
LONDON, 1670. MAKER'S MARK TM ABOVE A CORONET, POSSIBLY FOR THOMAS MINSHALL
Plain circular with moulded border, the deep bowl with raised centre, the flat rim later engraved with a coat-of-arms in scrolling cartouche and on reverse with an inscription 'The Gift of Mary Stone Grandmother to Jane Stone her Goddaughter the 23rd of March Ano. dom. 1670/1', marked on rim
13 ½. in. (34.2 cm.) diameter
30 oz. 16 dwt. (958 gr.)
The arms are those of Stone impaling Hawkins for James Stone (1685-1743) of New Inn, London and Badbury Manor, Wiltshire, and his wife Jane (1697-1771), daughter of Philip Hawkins of Pennans, Cornwall.

Provenance

Mary Stone (1616-1698), née Evans, widow of John Stone (b.c.1595-1663), of Drury Lane, London, a christening gift to her goddaughter and granddaughter,
Jane Stone (b.1670/1), the daughter of Mary Stone’s eldest son John Stone (1642-1716), of New Inn, London, and his first wife Jane (d.1674), daughter of Matthew Young of Midhurst, christened on 23 March 1670/1 at St. Clement Danes, London, presumably predeceasing her father, passing to him,
John Stone (1642-1716), of New Inn, London, possibly given as a wedding gift to his third son by his second wife Elizabeth (d.1723), née Stamper,
James Stone (1685-1743) of New Inn, London and Badbury Manor, Wiltshire, on his marriage to Jane (1697-1771), daughter of Philip Hawkins of Pennans, Cornwall, their arms being engraved on the dish, then by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The maker's mark, recorded by Ian Pickford in Jackson’s Silver and Gold Marks of England, Scotland and Ireland, Woodbridge, 1989, p 129, has been attributed to Thomas Minshall (d.1696) by Dr David Mitchell in his recent work Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, Their Marks and Their Lives, Woodbridge, 2017, pp. 539-550. Minshall entered his apprenticeship to John Hastings the younger in 1654, becoming free of his master in 1661. Minshall's master appears to have been a retail silversmith and Minshall also seems to have entered the retail trade from around 1683, by which time his premises are listed as The Golden Falcon, Fleet Street. He had three apprentices, one of whom, John Clarke, left the craft to become Keeper of the Lions and the Tower of London. Other surviving works by Minshall include a porringer of 1669, recorded in I. Pickford, op. cit., p. 129, a ewer and basin of 1670, at the Inner Temple in 1921 and the Chesterfield Corporation mace of 1671.

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