The Age of Oak - 9th April 2025
Lot 376
A PEWTER FIVE-LOBED ARMORIAL DINNER PLATE
Estimate £150 - £200 | Hammer £126
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Description
A PEWTER FIVE-LOBED ARMORIAL DINNER PLATE
LONDON, C. 1770
by James Tisoe, London, his touchmark to reverse, together with a ‘Fine British Pewter’ label, the arms of the Adair family, Ballymena, Antrim Co., Ireland, engraved to the rim within a rococo cartouche
25cm diameter
Provenance
The Carl Ricketts Collection of Pewter.
This lot, or another identical plate from the same garniture, formerly in the collection of W D Thomson is illustrated and described ‘National Types of Old Pewter’, p.25-26, fig. 142.
Literature
John Adair senior and members of his family moved from Ireland to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1760, Later moving to Tennesse. Part of this garnish is in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection, Virginia. See John David, ‘Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg’ p.p123-124 for illustrations and references.