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A Very Rare Pair Of English Enamelled Stirrups
Workshop Of Stephen Pilcherd, London, Second Half Of The 17th Century

22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare Pair Of English Enamelled Stirrups
Workshop Of Stephen Pilcherd, London, Second Half Of The 17th Century

Of brass, round arched in outline, the slender sides tapering up to the top and surmounted by a swivelling leather-loop, the sides cast and chased with scrolling vine leaves and grapes on a yellow ground (minor damage), and oval foot-plates each with two slender bars of hexagonal section (some wear overall) (2)
19 cm. high

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So-called 'Surrey' enamel of this distinctive type is found on spurs, horse-bits, hanger hilts, and domestic items such as candlesticks, fire-dogs and sconces. They were referred to as 'Surrey' by C.R. Beard in 1931 when he ascribed their manufacture to a factory in Esher, Surrey, although this has been contested by Claude Blair. See Claude Blair, Surrey Enamels Reattributed: Part 1, The Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, vol. 13, June 2005; and Blair and Patterson, Surrey Enamels Reattributed, Part 2, ibid, vol. 14, June 2006 including an illustration of one of a pair of almost identical stirrups in the Victoria and Albert Museum (M. 285 & 285A-1922). Another pair of the same design, formerly in the Meyrick and Spitzer Collections and enamelled in blue, white and yellow, are in the Wallace Collection (A446-7)

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