A rare pair of 18th century pewter communion cups, Irish, ci...

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£950

A rare pair of 18th century pewter communion cups, Irish, circa 1770-90

Each with a deep and tapering straight-sided bowl, with flared lip and fillet to edge of the flat base, the bowl engraved with the initials ‘DKC’, the addorsed waisted stem centred by a discoid knop, on a stepped domed base, apparently unmarked, but very possibly by John Heaney, Dublin, (fl.1767-1807), (PS4536), Howard Cotterell ‘Genuine’ labels to the underside, numbered 1292 & 1293, 16 fl.oz., 21.8cm (2)

Provenance: Sold Bonhams, Chester, 12 January 2011, Lot 154. The preceding Lot being an Irish communion flagon, also engraved ‘DKC’ and bearing the maker’s mark of John Heaney

Literature: See David Hall, ‘Types of Irish Pewter’ (2005), p.4, for an illustration of a very similar communion cup, in the collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Further comparable examples are illustrated page 19