A RARE PEWTER PATEN

A RARE PEWTER PATEN

ENGLISH, C.1603-25

unidentified mark struck to the reverse of the rim with a crowned rose flanked by 'I R’, possibly maker (PS8170), or in reference to an export piece from the reign of King James I, plain flat rim

17.7cm diameter

Provenance

The Carl Ricketts Collection of Pewter.

Formerly in the A V Sutherland Graeme (#16), sold Sotheby's 6.10.1981, Lot 78 and Barbara Muller, CT, USA, collections

Literature

Illustrated and described, P. Hornsby, ‘Pewter of the Western World’, p.125, fig. 308. See also ‘Journal of the Pewter Society’, Jan Gadd, ‘'The Crowned Rose as a Secondary Touch', Autumn