Beschreibung:

A Commonwealth sterling silver sweatmeat dish or saucer, London 1656 by William Harrison (free. 1646, d. 1701) Of circular dished form with twin domed handles, the body with repoussé decoration of stylised organic forms of laurel and rosettes, the domed centre encircled with a band of ellipses. The handles with two chased pelleted chevrons. The central boss with contemporaneous prick dot engraved initials S over W * M reserved with scroll forms. Fully marked to the edge, maker’s mark WH, star above, pellet in an annulet below, in a shaped shield. Length – 20.3 cm / 8 inches Weight – 128 grams / 4.12 ozt Harrison was apprenticed to the plateworker Abraham Smith for nine years from Midsummer 1638, free by service 11 December 1646. He bound ten apprentices in all, the more notable being Joseph Ash, William Denney, and John Bache. Another sweatmeat dish of 1656 in in the Minneapolis Museum of Art, illustrated Puig, F., (1986), English and American Silver: The Collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts., No 8.