Description
An Elizabeth I silver-gilt mounted tigerware jug,
by Richard Brooke, London 1580,
baluster form, scroll handle, the mounts with stylised foliate decoration, double acorn thumb-piece, domed hinged cover with a seated lion finial, on a raised circular foot, height 26cm.
For maker's mark see Jacksons, Ian Pickford Edition, The Antique Collector's Club, 2002, page 100.
Illustrated in Michael Clayton, The Collector's Dictionary of Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America, The Antiques Collectors Club, 1985, page 255.
