23rd Jun, 2022 11:00

Silver & Objects of Vertu

 
  Lot 640
 

A George III sterling silver tankard, London 1772 by John Deacon

A George III sterling silver tankard, London 1772 by John Deacon

Of tapering cylindrical form with reeded ‘coopered’ sections, the hinged flat disc lid attached to a panel section C shape handle. The edge of lid with engraved feathered decoration. The front engraved with initials TEM in flourished cursive script. Fully marked underneath and part-marked to the lid. Maker’s Mark I.D (as unidentified Grimwade 3631).

Height – 14.2 cm / 5.6 inches

Weight – 960 grams / 30.86 ozt

John Deacon was apprenticed to John Moore on the 19th January 1759, and free on the 2nd July 1766. He entered a mark as a plateworker on the 11th September 1776, at 23 Greenhills Rents, St John Street. “An earlier mark was probably in the missing book before 1773. He appears as plateworker, 1 Love Lane, Wood Steet in the parliamentary report list 1773. Heal records him as goldsmith, Addle Street, 1771 (…) he is recorded as bankrupt April 1775, in Wood Street.”

Sold for £2,250

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