Footnotes

• Provenance: Richard Mundey, purchased 1984.
  
  A two handled loving cup by William Hux, with similar decoration as found here, sold Christie's, The Little Collection, May 2007, lot 92.
  
  A similar mug in the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, illustrated, A. North, Pewter at the Victoria and Albert Museum , p.88, fig.88 (Yeates Bequest). Again, a direct comparison can be made regarding the diagonal gadroon and lenticular decoration.
  
  Literature: Illustrated Journal of the Pewter Society, Vol. 7, No. 3, Spring 1990, p. 99 (centre right).
  
  A similar mug, with the addition of punch decoration, similar to the V&A example, sold in these rooms, The Stanley Shemmell Collection, 26 October, 2006, lot 81.
  
  A survey of gadrooned mugs, conducted by Michael Boorer in 1984, lists this lot as the only other known curved example apart from the aforementioned V&A and Shemmell examples. A further example illustrated, the Journal of the Pewter Society, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 1997, pp. 42-43, bearing touchmark of Jonathan Cotton I (w.1704-1750).
  
  Compare with lots 79 and 141.

---

Category: Decorative Arts / Pewter

---

Auction terms and conditions