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During the seventeenth century, this beaker enlivened the ancient embattled mansion of Drayton, Northamptonshire. It served as an embellishment for the stately bedchamber apartments that were created by Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough (d. 1697), and by Sir John Germain Bt. (d. 1718), reputed half-brother of William III. Sir John, famed as a ‘Dutch soldier of fortune’, was married first in 1700 to the 2nd Earl’s daughter Lady Mary Mordaunt, Duchess of Norfolk (d. 1705), and then following her death married to Lady Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Berkeley (d. 1769), daughter of the 2nd Earl of Berkeley.
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There is some minor old wear to glaze consistent with age and use. There is a very small old chip to the rim. Otherwise good condition.
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