Object Description
A fine antique silver porringer with bands of ribbing and bright cut engraving. Britannia standard silver. Good size. Hand engraved to the front within a decorative cartouche is the name Patience Larcombe with a vase of flowers and date 1709. Very good condition and patina.
Weight 358 grams, 11.1 troy ounces.
Height 12 cm. Diameter 13.5 cm. Spread 21 cm.
London 1704.
Maker Thomas Parr.
Thomas Parr, London silversmith, apprenticed to Simon Noy 1687, free 1694. Livery 1712. 1st mark entered as largeworker undated, probably 1697. 2nd mark 1717. Died c.1728 when his widow Sarah entered her own mark.