Flagons
Browse our collection of beautiful silverware antiques. Our handsome sterling silver Flagons are very collectable and can be used and enjoyed. The earliest form of Flagon, used for serving wine, beer and other cold drinks, dates from the late 16th and early 17th century. These are extremely rare and would originally have had a companion dish or basin.
Large cylindrical flagons with hinged covers were mainly made for church use and date from the second half of the 17th century through to the 19th century.
Flagons
Browse our collection of beautiful silverware antiques. Our handsome sterling silver Flagons are very collectable and can be used and enjoyed. The earliest form of Flagon, used for serving wine, beer and other cold drinks, dates from the late 16th and early 17th century. These are extremely rare and would originally have had a companion dish or basin.
Large cylindrical flagons with hinged covers were mainly made for church use and date from the second half of the 17th century through to the 19th century.
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1624
Robert Snow
9703 James I Silver Flagon
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A magnificent early English silver flagon having a tall cylindrical body on a spreading base edged with reed banding. The almost flat cover has a simple curved thumbpiece. Good plain design. Uninscribed. Contains 1350 ml. Weight 1067 grams, 34.3 troy ounces. Height 29cm (to top of thumb piece). Diameter 9.7cm (top). London 1624. Maker probably Robert Snow (see Dr David Mitchell’s “Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London”). This flagon appears to be one of his earliest recorded works. Sterling silver.
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1725
William Lukin
7804 Antique George I Silver Flagon
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A magnificent early English silver lidded flagon with a tall vertical sided body on a spreading base. Britannia standard silver*. Good plain design. Uninscribed. The graceful curved handle has a large cast and scrolled thumb piece and a heart shaped bottom terminal. Contains 1500 ml. Weight 1356 grams, 43.6 troy ounces. Height 32 cms (to top of thumb piece). Diameter 9.5 cms (top), 8 cms (base). London 1725. Maker William Lukin.
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1858
Hunt & Roskell
9500 Antique Silver Hunting Jug
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Of sporting interest. A Victorian sterling silver flagon with hinged lid and scroll handle. The body has a deep relief hunting scene with horses and riders hunting to hounds. The lid has a dog finial. Gilt interior. Contains 1400 ml. Weight 1039 grams. Height 26.5cm. Spread 21.5cm. London 1858. Maker Hunt & Roskell, late Storr & Mortimer.
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1890
Hubert Schiffer
7471 Antique Silver and "Raeren" Stoneware Jug
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An antique English amphora jug or vase in the manner of Jan Emens Mennicken, German, 1540–1593, the body with decorative armorial medallions dated 1588 and 1594, the 3 handles dated 1590. With a sterling silver foot and collar and a detachable silver lid. This jug was in the collection of Sir Charles Jackson, the author of the esteemed book on English silver hallmarks. Height 38 cms. Spread across handles 18 cms. Diameter of base 12 cms. Makers mark only – “IM” over a billet and pellet. The silver marks are recorded in Jacksons for 1594 however the vase is a later copy circa 1890 by Hubert Schiffer. Schiffer ran a small workshop in Raeren specialising in copies of renaissance originals. Examples of his work are rare and were often damaged on purpose to make them look ‘authentic’. There is a similar vase in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (see accompanying documentation).
Literature: Sir Charles Jackson: ‘An Illustrated History of English Plate’, published 1911, vol. II, page 781, figure 1015, where the author compares the makers mark to that on the communion flagon at Westwell.
Provenance: Sir Charles Jackson.
William Randolph Hurst sold Sotheby & Co. London, 22nd June 1939 ‘The Property of William Randolph Hurst, Esq’, lot 72.Museum of Fine Arts in Boston http://educators.mfa.org/node/306110
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