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Pontypool salver

Date1755-1770

Possibly by Allgood and Company [or Allgood, Davis, and Edwards]

OriginEngland or Wales, Pontypool area

MediumJapanned tinned sheet iron ("Pontypool").

DimensionsOH: 1 1/8"; OW: 8 1/2"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1974-78

DescriptionPontypool salver of hexagonal form with stamped, raised rim composed of arcs and braces in symmetrical hexagonal arrangement; rim falls to flat well in center. Rim has gilded highlights; outer edge of well has blue border with gilded highlights (arcs and C-scrolls); well has tortoiseshell ground dominated by coat-of-arms surmounted by crest and surrounded by gilded cartouche; cartouches surrounded by floral and foliate decoration in colors of red, white, and green. Back of salver painted black. Salver sands on three black feet of modified paw form attached to body with rivets.

Coat-of-arms; on a field argent bordure gules three catherine wheels sable, impaled a martlet argent on a cross post of a field sable.

Crest: a demi-griffin vert beaked and clawer or.

Coat-of-arms unidentified.
Label TextBrightly painted or japanned accessories became increasingly more plentiful from the mid-eighteenth century onward. Emulating more expensive enamels and the colorful glazes and decoration on stylish earthenwares and furniture, these objects were intended mainly for the middle-class market.
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ProvenanceVendor: Alan Milford, London