An Early Charles II Silver Sweetmeat Dish and A Rare Irish Silver Porringer, London 1664 and Dublin circa 1750

For the first, see David Mitchell Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, pp. 496-7, where he records a sweetmeat dish by this maker, sold Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 1956.

For the porringer it should be noted that the engraved initials match those of the maker, William Townsend of 16 Fishamble St., apprenticed to Christopher Kindt 1718, freeman 1736, warden 1746-9, master 1749-50, elected Common Council city of Dublin 1755, assay master 1770-75, died 1775.