A Commonwealth silver beaker

A Commonwealth silver beaker,

maker's mark WH mullet above, pellet in annulet below, probably for William Harrison, London, 1656,

slight tapering cylindrical form, engraved with a coat of arms with plume mantling, the rim with line decoration, on a circular foot, the underside of the base scratch initialled 'IM', height 9cm, approx. weight 7.3oz.

Provenance:

A Private Collection.

Alastair Dickenson Ltd.

Sotheby's, New York, Early English Silver from the Collection of the late Charles L. Poor, 25 October 2005, lot 119.

Tessier's, London, November 1993.

For maker's mark see, Mitchell, D., Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, The Boydell Press, 2017, page 579.

The arms are probably those of Morewood, for Joseph Morewood (1632-1688). Born in Bradfield, Yorkshire and settled in Greenwich.