Live Auction 17737The Collection of Drue Heinz Townhouses in London and New York with interiors by John Fowler and Renzo Mongiardino
A CHARLES II SILVER PORRINGER AND COVER
Lot 174

A CHARLES II SILVER PORRINGER AND COVER

LONDON, 1672, MAKER'S MARK I.R, MULLET ABOVE AND BELOW, PROBABLY FOR JOHN RUSLEN

Closed4 June 2019

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A CHARLES II SILVER PORRINGER AND COVER
LONDON, 1672, MAKER'S MARK I.R, MULLET ABOVE AND BELOW, PROBABLY FOR JOHN RUSLEN
Baluster and with mask-capped beaded handles, the sides chased with a ram and a goat within foliage and flowers, the cover similarly chased with a lion and a goat, with foliage cast finial, marked underneath and inside cover
10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) wide over handles
39 oz. 10 dwt. (1,229 gr.)

Specialist note

Dr David Mitchell in Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London Their Marks and Their Lives, Woodbridge, 2017, pp. 390-393. attributes the maker's mark to John Ruslen, the son of Thomas Ruslen, a Clothworker in London, who became free of the Goldsmiths' Company by service in 1664. He became Prime Warden in 1712 and seems to have retired to Farnham, Surrey. His will was proved on 20 November 1717.