E2L I I . FINE BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL PEWTER, METALWORK, FINE ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL OAK FURNITURE THURSDA Y 30 APRIL 1981 at 11.00 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. THURSDAY 30 APRIL 1981 Catalogue All sales subject to the conditions printed in this catalogue MORNING SESSION AT 11.00 A.M. PEWTER 5 A NORTHERN FRENCH FLAGON. the baluster body with D-shaped handle and shaped thumbpiece V ARJOUS PROPERTIES to the domed cover a nd spout. 1.8th Century Sin. (20cm.) high A PAIR OF FRENCH OIL-LAMPS with bell-shaped reservoirs on tapering stems and circular bases, 19th Century 9in. (23cm.) high (2) 6 A SOUTH GERMAN FLAGON. the tapering cylindrical body cast in relief with a displayed eagle, its head forming the spout and holding a shield, inscribed at the base with the date 1790, with 2 scroll handle and shaped thumbpiece to the domed cover. 19th Century AN IRISH HALF-GALLON MEASURE of harvester type 13in. (33cm.) high inscribed Austin & Sons, Cork, with scroll handle and spreading foot 9-l-in. (24cm.) high 7 3 A COMPOSITE SET OF FOUR IRISH HARVESTER MEASURES of typical design with scroll handles A DUTCH PEAR-SHAPED FLAGON with scroll handle ranging in capacity from half-pint to half-gill, and shaped thumbpiece to the domed circular one by Austin & Sons, Cork, early 19th Century cover and spout, late 18th Century largest 5in. (12.5cm.) high (4) 9in. (23cm.) high 4 8 A DUTCH FLAGON with baluster body, scrolled A COLLECTION OF TEN VICTORIAN BULBOUS handle and shell-shaped thumbpiece to the MEASURES with scroll handles. ranging in capacity domed cover and spout, early 19th Century from half-pint to quartyr-gill l1in. (28cm.) high largest Hin. (9.5cm.) high (10) 5 I 1 THURSDAY 30 APRIL 1981 I I! I I I'1'I [10] 9 12 A PORRINGER with ring-turned circular bowl, A CONTINENTAL FLAGON, the baluster body with II pierced and scroll ha ndle, late 17th /early 18th D-shaped handle to the domed cover, on spread­ il:I Century ing foot, possibly Iberian, 18th Century ,11 stin. (21.5cm.) high 11 5tin. (l3cm.) diam. 13 10 A SCOTTISH UNCRESTED TAPPIT HEN MEASURE, the A SMALL PORRINGER. the base cast with an armorial baluster body with D-shaped handle and scrolled shield, shell-shaped handle thumbpiece to the domed cover, late 18th/early 3tin. (8cm.) diam. 19th Century I Hin. (29cm.) high 11 14 A GEORGE IV ALE-JUG by C. Bentley, Woodstock, AN AMERICAN TEAPOT, the bulbous body with the baluster body with D-shaped handle to the scroll handle, domed cover and spout on domed cover and spout spreading foot 9tin. (23 .5cm.) high 7in. (18cm.) high 6 J THURSDAY 30 APRIL 1981 (20) 15 18 A SCOlTISH FLAGON, the cylindrical body on A PLAIN CIRCULAR CHARGER with moulded rim, moulded foot and inscribed 'South College Street engraved with initials RMA, 18th Century, 16tin. U.P. Church 1858', with scroll handle and double (42cm.) diam.; and another with MA and two volute thumbpiece to the flat circular cover, coronets, 18th Century, 16tin. (42cm.) diam. (2) 19th Century 19 16 A DUTCH FLAGON of Normandy type, the A COMPOSITE SET OF SIX VICTORIAN BULBOUS cylindrical body with D-shaped handle to the MEASURES with D-shapedhandles, ranging in flat circular cover, 19th Century capacity from quart to quarter-gill, some by 8tin. (21.5cm.) high James Yates, Birmingham largest 6in. (15cm.) high (6) 20 17 A PAIR OF CHARLES II PORRINGERS, the circular ANOTHER SET OF SIX similar to the preceding bowls with shaped and pierced handle, touch largest 6in. (15cm.) high (6) HB on handles (2) 7 I II, THURSDA Y 30 APRIL 1981 ·11 I I iI 1.1 li 11 I:" I:' 1,.1 [ '\ 11 1 1• ' 11.1 "I i' l [22] [21] :1 I, 21 24 1 I A SCOTTISH CRESTED TAPPIT HEN MEASURE, the A MONTEITH, the circular bowl with ring-turned 11·1 baluster body with scroll handle and thumbpiece sides engraved with an armorial shield on spread­ !' to the domed cover and finia l, initialled on neck ing foot, touch William Cornelius Swift TB, MW, late 18th Century lOin. (2S.Scm.) diam. 12in. (30.Scm.) high 25 22 I:; AN ENGLISH BALUSTER MEASURE with D-shaped A COMMONWEALTH FLAGON, the cylindrical body handle and hammerhead thumbpiece to the flat I: with scroll handle and double volute thumbpiece circular cover 1 to the flat circular cover, on spreading foot, 5tin. (13cm.) high i inscribed on handle PEIRS 9tin. (24cm.) high 26 23 A GERMAN PLATE with gadrooned rim and engraved with a full length female portrait A PAIR OF BEAKERS, the tapering cylindrical bodies holding a fish in her left hand and olive branch on m~ulded feet, inscribed J.S. I and 4, late in her right hand standing on a socle, 11 tin. 18th Century, touch D.G.M., Dutch or German (29cm.) diam.; and a circular plate with beaded 6tin. (I6cm.) high (2) rim. both 18th Century. ?tin. (I8.Scm.) diam. (2) 8 THURSDA Y 30 APRIL 1981 [32] [31] [29] 27 30 A SCOTIISH BALUSTER MEASURE with scroll handle A PAIR OF PLAIN CIRCULAR CHARGERS with moulded and shell thumbpieee to the fl at circular cover, rims, Newcastle, 18th Century late 18th /early 19th Century, Sin. (l2.Scm.) high; lSin . (38cm.) diam. (2) another, similar, lacking cover, Sin . (12 .Scm.) high; a pl ai n baluster-shaped gill measure, 3iin. (9cm.) high ; and a Victorian tankard by J. Moynes with scroll handle and spreading foot 6t in . (16cm.) hi gh (4) 31 A SCOTIISH POT-BELLIED FLAGON with D-shaped handle and plain thumbpiece to the domed cover on spreading foot, late 17th Century, cover 28 replaced A SCOTIISH LlDLESS TAPPIT HEN MEASllRE with 9tin . (2Scm.) hi gh baluster body and scroll handle, circa 1800 6tin. (l6.Scm.) high 32 29 A GEORGE " TANK ARD with cylindrical body on A RARE SCOTIISH POT-BELLIED MEASURE with scroll moulded base, the scrolled handle with shaped handle on splayed foot, late 17th Century thumbpiece to the domed cover Stin. (13.Scm.) high 7in . (17 .Scm .) hi gh 9 I. I I i THURSDA Y 30 APRIL 19S1 [34] 33 36 A SWISS STITZE with tapering cylindrical body A FINE CIRCULAR PLATE by John Raymond, and scroll handle to the shaped thumbpiece and London, with trip1e-reeded rim, late 17th/ early flat cover, 19th Century 18th Century 6+in. (l7cm.) high 9tin. (24cm.) diam. Sold together with a certificate of authenticity from H oward H. Cotterell 37 A COMPOSITE SET OF THREE ENGLISH BALUSTER AN IRISH GEORGE III RECTANGULAR INKSTAND with MEASURES with D-shaped handles and bud thumb­ hinged double-flap top enclosing an inkwell and I pieces to the flat circular covers , early pounce-pot on one sid e and a recess for pens on I. ISth Century the other, on hour-glass shaped feet ! ' la rgest Sin. (20cm.) high (3) 6tin. (17cm:) · wide 38 A NORMANDY FLAGON, the ba lus ter body chased 35 with a male portrait medallion a nd a coat-of-arms, A LIDLESS TAN KARD of quart capacity by Peter with D-shaped handle and double-acorn thumb­ Llewellyn, Bristol, the cylindrical body with pi ece to the heart-shaped cover engraved with D-shaped handle, mid-1 9th Century fl eur-de-lys 6in. (1 5cm.) high Ilin. (2Scm.) high 10 THURSDAY 30 APRIL 1981 [39] [40] THE PROPERTY OF A LADY 39 A FRENCH ROSEWATER DISH after a design by Francois Briot, with moulded rim cast in relief with lion-masks, male and female figures, swagged drapery and scrolls, the raised centre with a later boss cast with figures on a terrace within a band of putto masks and strapwork , Montbeliard, early 16th Century, the rim damaged 18in. (46cm.) diam. Francois Briot (circa 1550-1616), born at Damblain in Lorraine but, as a Huguenot, was forced to flee to M ontbeliard in 1579. He was engraver to the Montbeliard mint and is renowned for his 'Temperantia Dish'; cf. an example sold in these Rooms, 13 May 1976, lot 53 Cf. Hanns Ulrich Haedeke, Zinn, 1973, pI. 135, which illustrates an example in the Museum flir Kunsthandwerk, Dresden . THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 40 A GERMAN ROSEWATER DISH in the manner of Caspar Enderlein, with moulded rim cast in relief with figures and animals within landscapes divided by masks framed by cartouches. the later central boss cast with a cartouche within a band of figures and strapwork and a further band of figures in gardens divided by lion-masks, Nuremberg, early 16th Century. damaged 18in. (46cm.) diam. Caspar Enderlein (1560-1633), the leading Nuremberg pewterer; born and trained in Basle, he settl ed in Nuremberg in 1583 Cf. Hanns Ulrich Haedeke, Zinn, 1973, pI. 137, which illustrates an example in the Museum flir Kunsthandwerk, Dresden 11 THURSDA Y 30 APRIL 1981 [43J [44J [451 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 45 A FINE BROAD-RIMMED CHARGER, touch R.M., 41 probably Richard Mason, London, late 17th Century AN OVAL MEAT-DISH with a recess at one end, 18in. (46cm.) diam. ISth Century 20in. (5Icm.) wide 46 42 AN IRISH GEORGE 1II RECTANGULAR INK-STAND with hinged double-flap top enclosing a pounce-pot and A PLAIN CIRCULAR BOWL, ISth Century inkwell on one side and a recess for pens on the 9tin. (24cm.) diam. other, on hour-glass shaped feet Sin. (20cm.) wide 43 47 A FINE CIRCULAR CHARGER by Christopher Baldwin, Wigan, with triple-reeded rim, late 17th/early A PLAIN OVAL DISH, inscribed C.T., ISth Century ISth Century IStin.