Live Auction 15492The Collector: Silver & 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art
A PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER TAZZE
Lot 526

A PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER TAZZE

LONDON, 1690, MAKER'S MARK TA BETWEEN PELLETS, PROBABLY FOR THOMAS ASH

Closed14 November 2018

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GBP 5,250

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A PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER TAZZE
LONDON, 1690, MAKER'S MARK TA BETWEEN PELLETS, PROBABLY FOR THOMAS ASH
Each circular and with gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms, on trumpet shaped foot with gadrooned border, marked near rim and on foot
8 ½ in. (21.6 cm.) diam.
24 oz. 10 dwt. (731 gr.)
The arms are those of Montagu quartering Monthermer with another in pretence.

Specialist note

The mark, recorded by Ian Pickford, Jackson’s Goldsmiths and Their Marks, Woodbridge, 1989, on page 136, line 4, has been attributed to Thomas Ash by Dr David Mitchell, in his work Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London Their Marks and Their Lives, Woodbridge, 2017, pp. 504-505.