Live Auction 14963THE COLLECTOR: English and European Furniture, Works of Art & Ceramics & Silver
AN ELIZABETH I SILVER-GILT MOUNTED TIGERWARE TANKARD
Lot 716 The West Collection

AN ELIZABETH I SILVER-GILT MOUNTED TIGERWARE TANKARD

MID-16TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS LONDON, CIRCA 1559, MAKER'S MARK SK IN A HEART, TO THE UNDERSIDE OF COVER AND COLLAR

Closed18 October 2017

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AN ELIZABETH I SILVER-GILT MOUNTED TIGERWARE TANKARD
MID-16TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS LONDON, CIRCA 1559, MAKER'S MARK SK IN A HEART, TO THE UNDERSIDE OF COVER AND COLLAR
The German stoneware jug with typical allover mottled brown glaze, fitted with a silver-gilt hinged gadrooned cover, foliate scrollwork collar and stiff leaf-tip footrim, the thumbpiece as crossed flowers, the panels on either side of the handle inscribed 1560
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high

Property from the Collection of Edward and Kiyi Pfleuger; Christie's, New York, 20 October 2006, lot 456.

Specialist note

See Ian Pickford, ed., Jackson's Silver and Gold Marks of England, Scotland and Ireland, Antique Collector's Club, 1989, p. 94, line 7 for the unidentified maker's mark of an SK within a heart found on the present mounts.