Sale 7541
London, South Kensington
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2 April 1997
Price realised
GBP 2,070
Estimate
A Commonwealth porringer, of baluster form with a flat base and cast, s-scroll handles, chased on the base with a quatrefoil floral motif and around the lower body with panels of four stylised tulips on a matt ground, pricked on one side with the initals B.R.S., makers mark RA in a heart-shaped punch * 1655, - (8½cm dia), 4oz
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* See Jackson's Revised pp124 for an illustration of this mark.
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