The basin of decagonal lobed shape, the rim chased with entrelacs, shells and flowerheads on matted ground and two beaded borders below, the shaped field with raised centre similarly chased, the helmet-shaped ewer on spreading base, embossed on the lower part with lobes chased with lambrequins with two ribs above and fluted rim, the side handle formed of two entwined dolphins, marked in centre of basin, under rim and on foot-rim of the ewer, engraved underneath the basin No 102. 4 op. 95. ³the ewer engraved No 101. 1op. 75.³
the basin: 21³⁄₈ in. (54.2 cm.) diameter; the ewer: 10¹⁄₂ in. (26.8 cm.) high
88 oz. 14 dwt. (2,759 gr.)

The Viscounts Wimborne.

Anna Frackowska, Gdansk Silver Tankards of the 17th and 18th Centuries, Warsaw, 2013, p.426.
M. Gradowski, A. Kasprzak-Miler, Złotnicy na ziemiach północnej Polski. Cz. 1: Województwo pomorskie, kujawsko-pomorskie i warmińsko-mazurskie, Warsaw, 2002, p.103, G.432.

For further information on the collection of the Viscounts Wimborne please visit the tab ‘The Wimborne Collection’ on the main sale page.

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