A SMALL PEWTER BEEFEATER FLAGON

£800 - £1,200

£819

A SMALL PEWTER BEEFEATER FLAGON

POSSIBLY WEST COUNTRY, C.1680

maker ‘IP’, (possibly PS 7613), having a straight-sided drum with usual form of lid, a five-lug hinge and 'swan neck' handle with spade terminal, the base inset slightly from the foot rim, allowing the concave upper foot and most of the ovolo moulded base to form part the interior, notable distinguished feature of a rare plume style thumbpiece unusually cast to both sides

capacity 42.8 fl oz. 23.5cm high

Provenance

The Carl Ricketts Collection of Pewter.

Literature

A similar, but larger flagon, described ‘Journal of the Pewter Society’, Autumn 2012 & Spring 2013. Illustrated and described ‘Journal of the Pewter Society’, Autumn 2024. A printed exhibition label to the underside of the lid referring to an unidentified Church Congress Exhibition.

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