£5,000 - £8,000
A very rare William & Mary Royal commemorative double-portrait pewter wrigglework flat-lid tankard, circa 1690
The straight-sided drum designed with a bust portrait of King William III and Mary II, below a crown and entwined cypher 'W/M R', all within an oval, flanked by a fanciful bird amongst foliage, the lid with front denticulations and decorated with a spray of three flowers, swan-neck handle with small rams' horn thumbpiece and boot-heel terminal, touchmark inside base (PS9142), height 15.4cm, diameter of lid 10.9cm
There are approximately twenty recorded pewter flat-lid tankards decorated with a double-portrait of William & Mary. The recorded examples are by various makers, but there are instances of near-identical decoration, strongly suggesting individual specialist engravers worked with several London pewterers to produce these highly prized commemorative tankards
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