A PAIR OF PEWTER HALF-PINT BEAKERS

A PAIR OF PEWTER HALF-PINT BEAKERS

IRISH, C.1780

no maker’s mark, however with a distinctive crowned ‘X’ as used by William Hodges, Dublin (fl.1765-90) struck in the base, along with punched ownership in the Dublin style: ‘M * MORAN’ over ‘L’ (for Laois?), of distinctively Irish form with an outward curving rim below which is a band of fine gadrooning (2)

10.2 fl oz. 9cm high (max)

Provenance

The Carl Ricketts Collection of Pewter.

County Laois, Eire.

Literature

D. Hall, ‘Types of Irish Pewter’, fig 18.