A COMMONWEALTH SILVER SMALL TANKARD

Lot 199
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Lot 199 | A COMMONWEALTH SILVER SMALL TANKARD
Valeur estimée
£ 12 000 – 18 000
A COMMONWEALTH SILVER SMALL TANKARD

LONDON, 1651, MAKER'S MARK HW WITH MULLET BELOW, PROBABLY ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY WHITTINGHAM

Tapering cylindrical, on spreading foot, the flat-domed cover with shaped peak and bifurcated thumbpiece, the top of the scroll handle pricked with interlaced scrollwork, engraved with a coat-of-arms within foliate mantling and pricked on one side with initials TH surrounded by flowerheads and on the handle with a foliate cartouche, marked on base and cover

5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) high

13oz. 10dwt. (419 gr.)

The arms are those of Chapman of Thringstone, co. Leicester.





Provenance

Col. William Fearon Tipping (1847-1911), of Brasted Place, Brasted, Kent;

Colonel Tipping, deceased, late of Brasted Place, Brasted, Kent; Christie's, London, 15 May 1911, lot 65 (£309 to Crichton),

With Crichton Brothers, London, from 1911.

Sir John Henry Brunel Noble of Ardkinglas, 1st Bt. (1865-1938), by descent to his third son,

Michael Anthony Cristobal Noble, later Baron Glenkinglas (1913-1984),

Michael Nobel Esq., and formerly part of the Collection of the late Sir John Noble, Bart; Christie's, London, 13 December 1944, lot 51 (£440 to How).

With How of Edinburgh, London.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 24 October 2000, lot 410.



Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Loan Exhibition of Old English Plate and Decorations and Orders, 1929, no. 31.

Exhibition catalogue, Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver, 1929, no. 155.

D. Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, Woodbridge, 2017, p. 335.



Exhibited

London, 25 Park Lane, Loan Exhibition of Old English Plate and Decorations and Orders, 1929, no. 31, Sir John Noble Bt.

London, Seaford House, Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver, 1929, no. 155, Sir John Noble Bt.



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