A RARE AND FINE QUEEN ANNE PEWTER TWIN-HANDLED GADROONED CUP...

Hammer

£5,000

A RARE AND FINE QUEEN ANNE PEWTER TWIN-HANDLED GADROONED CUP, WIGAN, CIRCA 1705. The cup with plain gently flared rim, above a beaded fillet and gadrooned base, two S-scroll beaded handles with double bird-head terminals, shallow footrim, hallmarks below two incised lines to rim of Christopher Ford, Wigan, (fl. ?-1724), (PS11340), height 9.5cm, overall width 17cm

Provenance: With Richard Mundey, typed label to underside. Former Jane Russell Collection, Sold Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, 21 September 2010, Lot 192.

Literature: See Journal of the Pewter Society, Autumn 2001, Vol.34, pp. 2-8. fig. 13. Out of only eighteen recorded two-handled gadrooned cups, this Lot is described by the author as 'one of the most attractive' and one of only six in private hands. See also Anthony North, 'Pewter at the Victoria and Albert Museum' (2000), no.117, acc. no. M.45-1945, and illustrated H.H. Cotterell, 'Old Pewter its Makers and Marks' (1929), p. 101. pl.XXXIIIe, for a highly similar cup, again by Christopher Forde and described by the author as a posset cup.