A CHARLES I SILVER TANKARD LONDON, 1626, MAKER'S MARK RB ABOVE A STAR On rim foot the tapering body chased with barrel loop banding, the flat hinged cover similarly chased and with Vitruvian scroll thumbpiece, engraved in centre with a coat-of-arms within a laurel wreath and on each side with part of an inscription ' Diluculo bibere saluberimum est .' , marked on body and cover 5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high 18 oz. 10 dwt. (576 gr.) The arms are those of Frewen for the Reverend Accepted Frewen (1588-1664), later Archbisop of York, or possibly for his father the Reverend John Frewen (d.1628), rector of Northiam, Sussex. Provenance The Reverend John Frewen (d.1628) of Northiam, Sussex, or more probably his son, the Reverend Accepted Frewen, later Archbisop of York (1588-1664), on his appointment as President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 1 December 1975, lot 334. With Alastair Dickenson, London, 1993.
A CHARLES I SILVER TANKARD LONDON, 1626, MAKER'S MARK RB ABOVE A STAR On rim foot the tapering body chased with barrel loop banding, the flat hinged cover similarly chased and with Vitruvian scroll thumbpiece, engraved in centre with a coat-of-arms within a laurel wreath and on each side with part of an inscription ' Diluculo bibere saluberimum est .' , marked on body and cover 5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high 18 oz. 10 dwt. (576 gr.) The arms are those of Frewen for the Reverend Accepted Frewen (1588-1664), later Archbisop of York, or possibly for his father the Reverend John Frewen (d.1628), rector of Northiam, Sussex. Provenance The Reverend John Frewen (d.1628) of Northiam, Sussex, or more probably his son, the Reverend Accepted Frewen, later Archbisop of York (1588-1664), on his appointment as President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 1 December 1975, lot 334. With Alastair Dickenson, London, 1993.
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