TWO PEWTER SEDER PLATES, 18TH CENTURY

TWO PEWTER SEDER PLATES, 18TH CENTURY

a large plate engraved with a lamb surrounded by four double eagles displayed spaced by the symbolic foods and date 1770, all within the opening lines of the Seder service, the rim with scrolling foliage, marked on back with three angel touch marks; and a small Plate with wide rim engraved with interlaced cypher and later with Hebrew initials and inscriptions including the course of the Seder interspersed with pinwheels, the plate circa 1700, marked on back I H with angel twice and Blocktin; the engraving probably early 19th century

diameters 15¼ and 10½ in.

38.6 and 26.5 cm