£1,300
OF CHARLES DICKENS INTEREST: A GOOD PEWTER QUART STRAIGHT-SIDED, DOME-LID AND ENGRAVED TANKARD, CIRCA 1720. The lid topped by an engraved Tudor Rose, the single narrow drum engraved with a bull, solid chairback thumbpiece, and S-scroll handle with hooded ball terminal, engraved to the underside with the initials 'E M' within a circular inscription (striked through) reading 'Sampson Turner at ye Bull, in Rochester', hallmarks to rim and touchmark inside base of William Eddon, London (PS), 18cm high
Provenance:
The Bull Hotel, Rochester, Kent
R.F. Michaelis Collection, sold Sotheby's, March 1973, Lot 80
Thence Sandy Law & Ken Gordon Collections
The Bull Hotel was originally built as a coaching inn in 1605. Charles Dickens who lived locally was a frequent visitor and The Bull is mentioned in both 'The Pickwick Papers' and 'Great Expectations'. It is presently called the 'Royal Victoria and Bull" after a visit by the future Queen in 1836.
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