A PAIR OF CHARLES II SILVER-GILT MOUNTED DUTCH DELFT PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE FLAGONS

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Los 103 | A PAIR OF CHARLES II SILVER-GILT MOUNTED DUTCH DELFT PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE FLAGONS
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A PAIR OF CHARLES II SILVER-GILT MOUNTED DUTCH DELFT PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE FLAGONS
THE MOUNTS MAKER'S MARK TC OR CT, POSSIBLY FOR THOMAS GILLEN, LONDON, DATED 1684, THE CERAMIC FLAGONS OF THE SAME PERIOD
The cylindrical flagons painted in the Chinoiserie taste with various courting figures in wooded watery landscapes, with loop handles decorated with flowers and foliage, the plain upper mounts and handle caps engraved with presentation inscription, with flat stepped covers with baluster finials and scrolled thumbpieces, marked on underside of cover with maker's mark only
10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) high
The inscription reads 'EX DONO THOMAE ROCKE GEN : ANNO 1684', The gift of Thomas Rocke, Gentleman : 1684'. Rocke was a Proctor of the Doctors' Commons in London, a society of lawyers practising civil law led by a Dean of Arches and a number of fellows, usually with doctorates in law from Oxford or Cambridge University. In addition there were thirty four proctors or solicitors. Later in the 18th century it became the 'College of Doctors of Law exercent in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts'. It was dissolved in the 1860s.




Provenance

The gift of Thomas Rocke of Closworth, Somerset to the church of All Saints, Closworth, Somerset in 1684.
The Reverend John Algernon Lawrence (d.1900), Rector of Closworth, by 1885.
With Harris-Lindsay Ltd., London, by 2007.
Acquired from S.J. Phillips Ltd., London, July 2007.



Literature

Rev. E. H. Bates, 'An Inventory of Church Plate in South-East Somerset', Somersetshire Archeological & Natural History Society's Proceedings, 1885, vol. XXXI, p. 268.
Anonymous, 'The Local Museum', Somersetshire Archeological & Natural History Society's Proceedings, 1886, vol. XXXII, p. 79.
E.H. Bates, An Inventory of Church Plate in South-East Somerset, Part II, vol. 43, 1893, pp. 172-231.
F. W. Weaver and C. H. Mayo, eds., 'Rocke Family', Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, 1893, vol. III, pp. 164-165.
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 61, pp. 244-245.
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