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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 30, 2020 | Christie's | London | Classic Art Evening Sale: Antiquity to 20th Century | 27 | $****** - ****** | A CHARLES I SILVER TANKARD |
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15.2 cm (6 in)
John Frank (1633-1697) of Pontefract, Yorkshire.
Robert Frank (1660-1738)
Robert Spence, 133 Fellowes Road, South Hampstead.
Anonymous sale [Robert Spence]; Christie's, London, 11 December 1902, lot 77 (£390 to Letts).
Sydney Loder (1867-1944), Greenfield Lodge, Market Harborough,
Sydney Loder; Sotheby's, London, 23 June 1931, lot 152.
with Walter H. Willson, London, 1932.
Ernest Samuel Makower F.S.A. (1876-1946), collector, philanthropist, then to his widow,
Rachel Makower (d.1960), of Holmwood, Birchfield Heath, Henley.
The Makower Collection; Sotheby's London, 16 March 1961, lot 142
with How of Edinburgh, 1961.
Gerald Sidney Sanders (1911-1982), collector and chairman of Sanders and Co., jewellers.
G.S. Sanders Esq.; Christie's, London, 21 May 1975, lot 190.
An Irish Pension Fund; Christie's, New York, 30 October 1991, lot 305.
London, Christie's, The B.A.D.A. Art Treasures Exhibition, 1932, no. 465 (lent by Walter H. Willson).
C. Jackson ed., English Goldsmiths and their Marks, London, 1921, p. 288.
R. Came, Silver, London, 1961, fig. 37.
Judith Bannister, 'Some Light on a Commonwealth Silver Tankard', The Burlington Magazine, June 1969, pp. 370-71.
M. Holland, English Provincial Silver: An Account of Old Country Silver, Newton Abbott, 1971, p. 52, fig. 1.
J. Banister, ‘A Merchant’s Mark?’, Country Life, vol. 179, 22 March 1984, p. 776.
V. Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver 1600-1940, London, 1986, p. 128.
M. Clayton, Christie’s Pictorial History of English and American Silver, Oxford, 1985, p. 60, fig. 9., (as 1649)
Christie’s Review of the Season, London, 1991, p. 178.
Tapering cylindrical and on spreading rim foot engraved with inscriptions, the matted body engraved with four oval medallions, one depicting the temptation of Eve, the others with the cardinal and inscribed virtues 'Be faithful unto death' and 'Hope well have well' and 'Given the poore Sent the Lord' all below further inscriptions, the tubular scroll handle engraved with initials 'FIM', the matted hinged domed cover with bifurcated scroll thumbpiece, the rim engraved with a merchant's mark and inscription terminating with a heart and clasped hands, the centre with a similar merchant's mark and later added date '1595' and '1st Eliz.', fully marked on base and cover
The initials on the handle are for John Frank (1633-1697) of Pontefract, Yorkshire and his wife Mary, daughter and co-heir of William Harbred, of Wistow, whom he married at Featherstone, near Pontefract on 5th April 1659.
