£800
A rare George I pewter quart high single-fillet straight-sided tavern pot, circa 1715
Having a truncated cone body with high single-fillet and simple lip, S-curve handle with tongue-thumbrest engraved with the ownership triad ALE, and with boot-heel terminal, the drum engraved Anthony Leonard att y Kentifh Hoy att Bear Key, crowned WR mark to collar, touchmark in base of John Donne, London (fl.1683-1727), (PS35), capacity 40 fl.oz., height 16.5cm
Provenance: Former Michael Boorer Collection. Sold Bonhams, Chester
Literature: Illustrated and discussed C. Ricketts, Early English Pewter Drinking Mugs, p. 37, no.83
Bear Quay (here spelt Key) is in Southwark. Records from St Dunstans-in-the-East, City of London, record an Anthony Leonard dying in 1719.
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