A RARE BRASS SKILLET

A RARE BRASS SKILLET

C.1700

the bowl with tapering sides and issuing a straight handle, stamped with a maker's mark 'AD' or 'MD' within a circle and terminating in a round terminal pierced for hanging, all raised on tripod legs

9.2cm high, 27.5cm long, 11cm diameter of bowl

Literature

R. Butler & C. Green, 'A Study Collection of Marked Domestic Brass and Other Base Metalware, c.1600 - c.1900', p.98, for a similar small skillet of the late 17th century with the maker's mark of a cross within a circlet of pellets.