A Charles II silver Chinoiserie two-handled porringer and cover

A Charles II silver Chinoiserie two-handled porringer and cover,

by Benjamin Pyne, London 1683,

circular form, scroll handles, the pull-off cover with a pierced foliate finial, the body and cover engraved with birds and foliate decoration in the Chinoiserie taste, height 19.5cm, approx. weight 28.5oz.

Provenance:

A Private Collection.

Alastair Dickenson Ltd.

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Fine Silver and Objects of Vertu, 28 October 2015, lot 646.

A Private Collection.

Tessiers Ltd, illustrated in a advert in the Connoisseur Yearbook 1961.