£1,500 - £2,000
A RARE AND DOCUMENTED WILLIAM & MARY OEWS QUART STRAIGHT-SIDED DOME-LIDDED TANKARD, BIRMINGHAM, CIRCA 1690. The plain drum with entasis and engraved 'Soulkholm' to the upper front, the lid with front denticulations, scroll thumbpiece, handle with upper triangular ribbed decoration and 'shield' terminal, crown 'X' to rim, touchmark inside base of William Wood II, (fl.1665-1726), (PS10406), height 16.5cm
Provenance: Former Christopher Peal Collection. Sold Sotheby's October 1981, Lot 49. Former Ken Gordon Collection
Literature: Illustrated C. A. Peal, 'British Pewter' (1971). p. 112 & 113, fig.49 (lid) and colour plate 9
The Lands and the Manor of Soulkholme, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, owned by the Duke of Portland probably bear reference to this tankard.
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