A Scottish Pewter Communion Flagon

Circa 1781

inscribed Belonging to the Associate Congregation of East Barns, 1781 and made by John Gardner of Edinburgh (O.P. no. 1808).
Height 10 3/4 inches.

Illustrated on the dust cover of the revised edition of H.J.L.J. Masse's The Pewter Collector, and C.A. Peal's British Pewter, p. 151, fig. 79.

Property from the Estate of Paul Thomas Griffith, Dayton, Ohio

Provenance:

Sotheby's London, European Sculpture, Works of Art, and Ironwork, April 22, 1986, Lot 247.

Previously Sotheby's, April 24th, 1970, Lot 114.

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A Scottish Pewter Communion Flagon

Circa 1781

Property from the Estate of Paul Thomas Griffith, Dayton, Ohio

Provenance:

Sotheby's London, European Sculpture, Works of Art, and Ironwork, April 22, 1986, Lot 247.

Previously Sotheby's, April 24th, 1970, Lot 114.

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