A Pair of Charles II Antique Silver-Gilt Mounted Dutch Delft Porcelain Blue and White Flagons, 1684
Height: 10 1/4"
London
H0858
$ 85,000.00
Maker's mark TC or CT, possibly for Thomas Gillen The inscription reads 'EX DONO THOMAE ROCKE GEN : ANNO 1684', The gift of Thomas Rocke, Gentleman : 1684'. Rocke was...
Maker's mark TC or CT, possibly for Thomas Gillen
The inscription reads 'EX DONO THOMAE ROCKE GEN : ANNO 1684', The gift of Thomas Rocke, Gentleman : 1684'. Rocke was a Proctor of the Doctors' Commons in London, a society of lawyers practicing civil law led by a Dean of Arches and a number of fellows, usually with doctorates in law from Oxford or Cambridge University. In addition there were thirty four proctors or solicitors. Later in the 18th century it became the 'College of Doctors of Law exercent in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts'. It was dissolved in the 1860s.
Provenance:
The gift of Thomas Rocke of Closworth, Somerset to the church of All Saints, Closworth, Somerset in 1684
The Reverend John Algernon Lawrence (d.1900), Rector of Closworth, by 1885
Sold Bukowskis, Sweden, 3 December 2003
With Harris-Lindsay Ltd., London, by 2007
Acquired from S.J. Phillips Ltd., London, July 2007.
Literature:
Rev. E. H. Bates, 'An Inventory of Church Plate in South-East Somerset', Somersetshire Archeological & Natural History Society's Proceedings, 1885, vol. XXXI, p. 268.
Anonymous, 'The Local Museum', Somersetshire Archeological & Natural History Society's Proceedings, 1886, vol. XXXII, p. 79.
E.H. Bates, An Inventory of Church Plate in South-East Somerset, Part II, vol. 43, 1893, pp. 172-231.
F. W. Weaver and C. H. Mayo, eds., 'Rocke Family', Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, 1893, vol. III, pp. 164-165.
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 61, pp. 244-245.
The inscription reads 'EX DONO THOMAE ROCKE GEN : ANNO 1684', The gift of Thomas Rocke, Gentleman : 1684'. Rocke was a Proctor of the Doctors' Commons in London, a society of lawyers practicing civil law led by a Dean of Arches and a number of fellows, usually with doctorates in law from Oxford or Cambridge University. In addition there were thirty four proctors or solicitors. Later in the 18th century it became the 'College of Doctors of Law exercent in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts'. It was dissolved in the 1860s.
Provenance:
The gift of Thomas Rocke of Closworth, Somerset to the church of All Saints, Closworth, Somerset in 1684
The Reverend John Algernon Lawrence (d.1900), Rector of Closworth, by 1885
Sold Bukowskis, Sweden, 3 December 2003
With Harris-Lindsay Ltd., London, by 2007
Acquired from S.J. Phillips Ltd., London, July 2007.
Literature:
Rev. E. H. Bates, 'An Inventory of Church Plate in South-East Somerset', Somersetshire Archeological & Natural History Society's Proceedings, 1885, vol. XXXI, p. 268.
Anonymous, 'The Local Museum', Somersetshire Archeological & Natural History Society's Proceedings, 1886, vol. XXXII, p. 79.
E.H. Bates, An Inventory of Church Plate in South-East Somerset, Part II, vol. 43, 1893, pp. 172-231.
F. W. Weaver and C. H. Mayo, eds., 'Rocke Family', Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, 1893, vol. III, pp. 164-165.
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 61, pp. 244-245.