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Lot 3
AN INTERESTING COMMEMORATIVE PEWTER CHARGER: PROBABLY COMMEMORATING THE MARRIAGE OF CHARLES II TO CATHERINE OF BRAGANZA, DATED 1662. The well engraved with Stuart royal arms for Charles II, encircled by the garter, with supporters, surmounted by a helmet, crowned, and having above it a lion and the initials ‘CR, beneath is the royal motto 'Dieu et Mon Droit' and the inscription 'Vivat Rex Carolus Secundus Beati Pacifici 1662’ (Long Live King Charles II of Blessed Peace), rim engraved with meandering oak leaves and acorns, the rear with punched/wriggled initials 'I.C., P.P., F' and touchmark to rear, probably ‘RA’, (fl.1662-?), (PS1414), 41.5cm diameter Provenance; Formerly Reverend O.E. Brooks Collection. Sold Bonhams, 8 September 2000, lot 987, when sold with photocopied correspondence between previous owner and Sutherland-Graeme 1935-38 Literature: Illustrated, 'Pewter Restoration Chargers’, Captain A.V. Sutherland-Graeme, Connoisseur, June 1942, fig. VII, p.127 The Worshipful Company of Pewterers of London have two similar commemorative chargers; one is illustrated in 'A short history of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers of London and a catalogue of Pewterware in its possession' 1968, pg. 27 and another is illustrated in their 'Supplementary catalogue of Pewterware' 1979, pg. 17. See also Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, London, acc. no. 347-1872. And, the British Museum Collection, acc. no. 1869,0501.1, for the only known similar commemorative example dated to ‘1661'. A further example sold Philips, Chester, 15 October 1999, Lot 1095. *CR Scratches and marks to central field and border.