A James I pewter alms bowl

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A James I pewter alms bowl
the central reeded boss inset with a Surrey enamel decorated brass badge of the Royal Arms initialled I.R., within a plain everted outer rim -- 12½in. (31.8cm) diameter
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Provenance

The late A.C.J. Wall, Esq, thence by descent.

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Stanley Shemmell, The Journal of the Pewter Society, Vol. 3 No. 4, Autumn 1982. P.105-111.
Howard Herschel Cotterell, Old Pewter its Maker's and Marks, Batsford, London 1929. P.121, pl.LIII, figs.C & D.
Peter Hornsby, Pewter of the Western World, Schiffer, Exton Pennsylvania 1983. P.54, pl.80.

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