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A Rare Charles II Wine or Communion Cup

A Rare Charles II Wine or Communion Cup

Raised on a plain trumpet foot, the long and plain tapering bowl rising from a corded wire and with pricked date towards the rim  "1671". Marked on the bowl and foot.

Date

Maker

1671

Maker's mark R.P probably for Robert Pocock

Weight

Dimensions

6 oz (186.6gm)

5.8" (14.7 cm) high

Price

£12,500

Provenance

Roseberry's Auction House, 19th November, 2021, lot 539, Property of a deceased eastate.

Essay

This unusually shaped wine cup has a superb colour and patination along with very clear marks. The trumpet shaped foot is typical of smaller Commonwealth wine cups and this form has been described as a "footed beaker". A very similar example was sold by Sotheby's on 24th April, 1986,  lot 215.

The maker's mark is recorded in David Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, pp  468-9 as probably that of Robert Pocock

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