Early Spoons, Silver and Collectors' Items - 26th January 2005

Lot 813

A William & Mary chinoiserie porringer and cover

Estimate 0-0 | Hammer £9000

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Description

A William & Mary chinoiserie porringer and cover, with beaded s-scroll handles, a campana form bowl and a small stepped circular foot, the cover with a flattened dome and a reeded rim, centred by a centred knop finial and the whole decorated with flat chased figures, birds and flowering plants, centred on one side by a wreath cartouche with a pricked crest below another engraved crest, the base scratched with two sets of initials: