A GEORGE I BRITANNIA SILVER COVERED TANKARD Richard Bayley, London, 1718
A GEORGE I BRITANNIA SILVER COVERED TANKARD
Richard Bayley, London, 1718
The spreading cylindrical girdled body on a moulded foot with a domed and moulded cover, the scrolling handle with a scroll thumbpiece, baluster drop, and shaped terminal, engraved with a lion rampant within an escutcheon surmounted with a helm beneath a crest of a lion sejant, all within a large foliate mantle with floral swags supported by flying putti to the sides
20.5cm high, 1,062g
A GEORGE I BRITANNIA SILVER COVERED TANKARD
Richard Bayley, London, 1718
The spreading cylindrical girdled body on a moulded foot with a domed and moulded cover, the scrolling handle with a scroll thumbpiece, baluster drop, and shaped terminal, engraved with a lion rampant within an escutcheon surmounted with a helm beneath a crest of a lion sejant, all within a large foliate mantle with floral swags supported by flying putti to the sides
20.5cm high, 1,062g