Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 22nd September 2021
Lot 133
A RARE BRASS SKILLET
Estimate £200 - £300
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Description
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.