THE PORCELAIN EARLY 17TH CENTURY, THE ENGLISH MOUNTS JAMES I, MAKER’S MARK S OVER W IN SHAPED CARTOUCHE ATTRIBUTED TO STEPHEN WOOD, LONDON, CIRCA 1630

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TWO SILVER-MOUNTED CHINESE 'KRAAK' PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE VASES
THE PORCELAIN EARLY 17TH CENTURY, THE ENGLISH MOUNTS JAMES I, MAKER’S MARK S OVER W IN SHAPED CARTOUCHE ATTRIBUTED TO STEPHEN WOOD, LONDON, CIRCA 1630
Each vase of pear-form body and lightly lobed, painted with vertical panels of either foliage or alternating foliage and horses diving into a frothy sea, beneath a ruyi-head band and panels of dots on the neck, the underside of the taller example with an indistinct underglaze blue device, the silver with ovolo bands and domed threaded covers, marked on the mounts to the bases each with maker's mark only, one with pricked scratchweight 'w: 7 oz: ¾ : 2 dwt:', the other with pricked scratchweight 'w: 8: oz: 3 dwt:'
12 ¼ in. (31.1 cm.) high, the slightly taller

Provenance

Acquired from S.J. Philips, Ltd., London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1986.

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Lot Essay

Dr. David Mitchell, in Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London Their Lives and Their Marks, Woodbridge, 2017, pp. 499-500, attributes this mark to the plateworker Stephen Wood, the son of a yeoman, George Wood, of Burton-upon-the-Hill, Yorkshire. Wood was apprenticed first to Robert Snow for just one year in 1615, and then Richard Cooke from 1616 until 1624, when he was made free of the Goldsmiths' Company. He had one recorded apprentice and died in 1661.

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