Photo: courtesy of Sotheby's
Fauconberg porringer
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 2005
- Dimensions
- 22 x 19.2 cm, weight: 1kg
- Vendor
- Private vendor
A twelve sided covered cup with opposing scroll handles and a plain cylindrical foot.
The bowl bears the arms of Thomas Belasyse, a chevron between three fleur-de-lis impaling those of his first wife Mildred, daughter of Viscount Castleton. A porringer of the size and quality of the Fauconberg cup could be used for caudle, a hot spicy drink of ale or wine whisked into an emulsion with egg yolks.
Provenance
Thomas Belasyse, 2nd Viscount Fauconberg (1627-1700); Paul Butler by 1862; Sir Ernest Cassel; then by descent.