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Lot 56*

A pair of engraved nautical rummers, dated 1854

20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £573.75 inc. premium

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A pair of engraved nautical rummers, dated 1854

The generous U-shaped bowls with a two-masted schooner within a cartouche, titled 'INDUSTRY' beneath, the reverse inscribed 'J Hall Esq. a Present from Captn J Powditch Lynn, 1854', within a stylised stiff-leaf cartouche flanked by fruiting vine, on short plain stems and circular feet, 16.5cm high (2)

Footnotes

Clayton's Register of Shipping of 1865 lists a J Powditch as the Master of a sailing ship called 'Industry', weighing 74 tons, in the Port of Wells.

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