A CHARLES I SILVER TAZZA

Lot 200
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ID 992587
Lot 200 | A CHARLES I SILVER TAZZA
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A CHARLES I SILVER TAZZA

LONDON, 1633, MAKER'S MARK W.C. WITH MULLET BELOW, POSSIBLY ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM COOPER

Circular, on spreading reeded foot, the bowl with scalloped and ribbed sides, the centre chased with a star interspaced with rosettes and punched buds framing a pounced coat-of-arms, marked on side and foot

8 1/2 in. (21.5 cm.) diameter

16 oz. 3 dwt. (503 gr.)

The arms are those of Allott with a mark of cadencey for the second son.





Provenance

Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe (1884–1964),

The Rt. Hon Earl Howe P.C., C.B.E, removed from Penn House, Amersham, Bucks; Christie's, London, 6 December 1933, lot 152 (£486 to Crichton),

With Crichton Brothers, London.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Olympia, 27 November 2001, lot 105.



Literature

D. Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London Their Marks and Their Lives, Woodbridge, 2017, p. 565.



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