A Charles II sterling silver beaker, London 1682 by Edward Gladwin (free 1668 – active until circa 1694 or 1699)

Of flared cylindrical form upon a moulded foot. The underside engraved with initials I T in Roman script. Fully marked underneath.

Height – 9.5 cm / 3.75 inches

Weight – 160 grams / 5.14 ozt

Edward Gladwin of Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, apprenticed to Francis Leake on the 16th of August 1661, becoming free by service on the 26th of August 1668. He was elected a Liveryman in 1674, in 1689 he made a parcel of silver for the Lord Mayor of London; four tankards along with a basin and ewer. He is known to lodged with is former apprentice John Yates by the time of the 1692 poll tax, where Yates had also taken on Edward’s son Thomas as an apprentice in 1691. However, Yates died in 1693, whereby Thomas Gladwin was turned over to Francis Garthorne. The living arrangements of Edward Gladwin are not known after this date. However, he also served as Touchwarden in 1698 but he does not seem to have registered a Britannia standard mark in the act of 1697, therefore one might speculate that the Gladwin workshop might then have been in the hands of his sons William (free 1697) and Thomas (free 1699).

This mark, his first, along with his second mark of E G between two mullets was attributed to Gladwin by A.J.H. Sale, Goldsmiths of Gloucester, 1500-1800, The Silver Society Journal Vol 2, P.74 (1990). David M. Mitchell cites Anthony Sale's attribution of this mark to Edward Gladwin in Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, (2018) p. 281. Jackson records two tankards, a cup and an alms dish by this maker made between 1670 and 1680. (Jackson, 1989, P. 138, LINE 8).

Other Silver by Edward Gladwin:

• A porringer and cover 1668, previously with Alistair Dickenson
• A tankard of 1670 by this maker is illustrated in the collection of The Stirling and Francine Clark Institute see B.Carver Wees, English, Scottish and Irish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, New York, 1997, P.54
• A tankard of 1671 by Gladwin, sold Christie’s, London, 30-31 May 2012, Lot 319 (£7,500, incl. premium) • A tankard of 1671(?), sold Christie’s South Kensington, 2 April 1996, Lot 261 (£2,645 incl. premium)
• A twin handled cup of 1674, sold Christie’s New York, 17 April 1997, Lot 83 (part lot)
• A single handled porringer of 1674, sold Sotheby’s New York, 19 Jan 2019 lot 914 ($6,875 incl. premium)
• A tankard of 1676 (sic), sold these rooms, 12 March 2019, lot 234 (£4,250 incl. premium)
• A tankard of 1679 (sic), sold Christie’s South Kensington, 4 Dec 2012, Lot 35 (£6,250 incl. premium)
• A tankard of 1679, sold Christie’s Rome, 9-10 Dec 1999 lot 50 (ITL 10,925,000, incl. premium)
• A tumbler of 1679, sold Tennants, 13 Dec 2014, lot 1046 (£600 hammer)
• A tankard of 1680, sold Christie’s New York, 27 Oct 1992, Lot 392 ($9,900 incl. premium)
• A tankard of 1680, sold Christie’s New York, 22 May 2008, Lot 227 ($3,500 incl. premium)
• A tankard of 1681 E.G overstriking another, sold, Christie’s New York, 22 May 2009, Lot 232 ($5,000 incl. premium)
• A chinoiserie twin handled cup and cover of 1681 is in The Royal Collection (RCIN 46292)
• A twin handled porringer of 1682, sold Christies, New York, 22 May 2008, Lot 228 ($2,500, incl. premium)
• A chinoiserie twin handled porringer of 1682 sold Christie’s London, 31 March 1998, Lot 112, (£3,220 incl. premium)
• A beaker of 1682, Christie’s South Kensington, 7 July 2015, lot 241 (2,500 incl. premium)
• A tankard of 1683, sold Christie’s South Kensington, 6 Nov 1999, lot 152 (£8,280 incl. premium)
• A skillet cover (sic) of 1683 illustrated in Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, (2018) p. 282
• A tankard of 1684, sold Christie’s London, 8 July 1992, Lot 99 (£4,840 incl. premium)
• A tankard of 1685, sold Christie’s South Kensington, 24 March 2009, Lot 236 (£1,875 incl. premium)
• A two handled cup of 1685, sold Christie’s New York 28 April 1992, lot 255 ($4,620 incl. premium)
• A chinoiserie mug of 1688, sold Christie’s, London, 12 June 2006, Lot 166 (£4,080 incl. premium)
• A pair of tazza of 1688, sold Christie’s New York, 19 April 2002, Lot 406 ($7,768 incl. premium)
• A twin handled cup of 1689, sold Christie’s South Kensington, 1 Dec 2004, Lot 280 (£1,554 incl. premium)
• A twin handled cup of 1691, sold Christie’s New York 27 Oct 2005, Lot 470 ($2,880 incl. premium)
• A caster of 1694, sold Christie’s, London 29 Nov 2007, Lot 584 (£3,250 incl. premium)