Description
A 17th century pewter baluster wedge measure, with a flat lid having two incised lines, the thumbpiece previously with a ball or hammerhead, to a scroll handle, touch mark of a 'flaming heart above D B' and 1'6?8', the lid with owner triad 'B over WM', the inside of the base with house mark of a bull, 8.75in (22cm) h.
Provenance: A. I. Isher & Son, Cheltenham, 1949.
Christopher Peal Collection, Sotheby's 13th November 1980, Lot 71.
Literature: Christopher A Peal. British Pewter 1971, p.65 fig. 14, p.96 fig. 31.
