A rare and documented Charles II pewter wrigglework footed ‘...

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£2,500

A rare and documented Charles II pewter wrigglework footed ‘wine' cup, circa 1680

The conical egg-shaped bowl designed with scrolling flora, on a waisted stem and gently domed foot with dog-tooth decoration in the form of a six-petal flower, dated touchmark to underside of ‘II’, (fl.1668-?), (PS5394) height 8.4cm, lip diameter 5.3cm, foot diameter 6.1cm

Provenance: Former Kenneth Barkin Collection

Only two further wrigglework wine cups are recorded, both in the Worshipful Company of Pewterers of London Collection, and neither have a maker’s mark

Literature: Illustrated K. Barkin, ‘Wriggle Work Decoration on British & European Pewter 1600-1880’ (2002), p. 76.
See also ‘ The Worshipful Company of Pewterers of London Supplementary Catalogue of Pewterware, 1979’, items S3/310 & S3/311.  S3/310, illustrated p. 48, is particularly similar to this Lot.  In an article written by R. F. Michaelis, for ’The Antique Collector’ entitled  ‘Wrigglework Decoration on Pewter’, October 1963, pp.198-199, item S3/310 is referred to as having the maker’s mark ‘CR’ in a lozenge, (PS8167).  It is also noted the wine cup was excavated from Strutton Ground, Westminster, in 1925, the former site of Stourton House, an early 17th century women and children's' hospital, built by Lady Anne Dacre, sister of Thomas Sackville, 1st Baron Buckhurst