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








