Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A rare Charles II silver skillet and cover,
by Francis Leake, London 1665,
circular form, scroll handle, the front applied with a cartouche engraved with an armorial shield, the pull-off circular cover of bleeding bowl form, with a pierced handle and engraved with the same armorial shield, on three stylised hoof feet, the underside with an old museum loan number, and paper collection label, diameter 14cm, height 13.2cm, approx. weight 22.9oz.

Provenance: A Private Collection.
Listed in collection inventory as purchased from Bruford 20 December 1938, (on behalf of Mallett).
Christie's, The Highly Important Collection of Old English and Foreign Silver, The Property of William Randolph Hearst Esq., December 14, 1938, lot 78.

The paper label states:
Exhibited at Glasgow Museum
From the Collections of John A. Holms Esq.
Mrs R H Philipson 1929.
Francis P. Garvan Esq.
William Randolph Hearst Esq. Sale of 14 December 1938, lot 78.

For maker's mark see Mitchell, D., Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, Their Lives and Marks, The Boydell Press, 2017, page 295.
This Skillet is mentioned in Jackson's, Dover Edition 1964, page 130.
For a write-up on silver skillets, see Clayton, M., The Collector's Dictionary of Silver and Gold, Hamlyn Publishing 1971, pages 355/56.