Of bombé circular form, the lower body chased and engraved with scrolling flowers and foliage, with two scroll handles headed by female busts, the domed cover further chased with flowers and foliage and with trumpet foot finial, engraved on side of body and top of finial with a coat-of-arms in foliate mantling, fully marked on side of body and cover, finial with lion passant only
8³⁄₈ in. (21.2 cm.) long, over handles
20 oz. 8 dwt. (634 gr.)

Anonymous sale; Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, 31 October 2007, lot 1341.
Acquired from S.J. Shrubsole, New York, 2 December 2008.

David M. Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, Their Lives and Their Marks, London, 2017, p. 349.

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The mark on the present lot has been attributed most probably to John Cruttall (d. 1695) by David Mitchell in his book Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, Their Lives and Their Marks (London, 2017, p. 349). Cruttell was first apprenticed to Francis Harris beginning in 1647, and then to Daniel Rutty before becoming free in 1655. A dish bearing the same mark as on the present porringer was sold from the Estate of Dr. Jeffrey Lant, Christie's, New York, 9 October 2024, lot 48. Further, a tankard bearing the same mark was sold Christie's, New York, 16 November 2017, lot 404.
The coat-of-arms engraved on the present porringer are those of a Baronet as shown by the 'bloody' hand of Ulster appearing in the upper left corner. This order was created by King James I in 1611 as a way to raise funds for his campaign in Ulster.