A PEWTER FIVE-LOBED ARMORIAL DINNER PLATE

A PEWTER FIVE-LOBED ARMORIAL DINNER PLATE

LONDON, C. 1770

by James Tisoe, London, his touchmark to reverse, together with a ‘Fine British Pewter’ label, the arms of the Adair family, Ballymena, Antrim Co., Ireland, engraved to the rim within a rococo cartouche

25cm diameter

Provenance

The Carl Ricketts Collection of Pewter.

This lot, or another identical plate from the same garniture, formerly in the collection of W D Thomson is illustrated and described ‘National Types of Old Pewter’, p.25-26, fig. 142.

Literature

John Adair senior and members of his family moved from Ireland to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1760, Later moving to Tennesse. Part of this garnish is in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection, Virginia. See John David, ‘Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg’ p.p123-124 for illustrations and references.