A pair of George II pewter communion cups, circa 1750 Each...

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£460

A pair of George II pewter communion cups, circa 1750

Each having a deep bowl, with mid-fillet and flared single-reeded lip, the discoid knop stem atop a broader fillet centred stem, on domed foot, typically unmarked,  29 fl.oz, 21cm, (2)

Literature: See P. Hornsby, ‘Pewter of the Western World 1600-1850’ (1983), p. 90, pl. 174, for a comparable English communion cup dated to mid-18th century. And, a pair of communion cups in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection, Virginia, USA, illustrated  J. D. Davis, ‘Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg’ (2003),  p. 301, pl. 397. The chalices have an identical cup and stem, although interestingly the stem has been inverted