TWO DOCUMENTED EARLY 18TH CENTURY BRASS SKIMMERS

TWO DOCUMENTED EARLY 18TH CENTURY BRASS SKIMMERS

PROBABLY BY THE SAME MAKER, ENGLISH, C.1710

each of heavy gauge, the near-flat pan with five concentric rings of multiple holes, the handle stamped multiple times near the suspension hole with maker's mark 'DT' (2)

62.2cm long (max)

Literature

Illustrated in R. Butler, 'A Study Collection of Marked Domestic Brass and Other Base Metalware, c. 1600 - c. 1900' (2001), p. 29, nos. 41 and 42.