Tankard
Osmond Strickland
Category
Silver
Date
1683
Materials
Sterling silver
Measurements
18.6 x 21.7 x 16.1 cm; 1220 g (Weight)
Place of origin
London
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Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516517
Summary
A tankard, silver (sterling), mark of Osmond Strickland, London, 1683/4 The tankard stands on a circular moulded foot ring. The sloping cylindrical sides are made of sheet silver seamed behind the handle. Opposite the handle a coat of arms is engraved in feather and foliage mantling. The rim is applied with a moulded border. The hinged cover is raised and has a moulded step round the flat centre. The broad rim is engraved with a reeded border. The scroll thumbpiece is cast. The hollow S-scroll handle is raised in two pieces and seamed; it terminates in a tucked in end, and has a blow hole at its base. Heraldry: The arms are those of HUDLESTON for Andrew Hudleston of Hutton John, impaling LAWSON for his wife Katherine. Scratch weight: None
Full description
NOTES ON OSMOND STRICKLAND Osmond Strickland was the son of John Strickland, a yeoman of Winterbourne, Dorset. He was apprenticed to Roger Stevens from Christmas 1651 until he became free in May 1660. It would appear that he started business without family money or a wealthy patron, as he had to appeal to the Goldsmiths’ Company for charitable donations on three occasions, however, by the 1670s his business was on firmer ground, and in 1684 he was appointed a liveryman. It is likely that he retired during or before 1697, as he never registered a Britannia Standard mark. HERALDRY Andrew Hudleston of Hutton John, Cumberland (1603 - 1672), was the nephew of Father John Hudleston (1608-1698), who was instrumental in hiding Charles II after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 and who, over thirty years later, received him into the Roman Catholic faith on his deathbed in 1683. Andrew Hudleston is recorded as being ‘the first Protestant of his family’. In 1662 he married Katherine, daughter of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bt. of Isell, co. Cumberland and had issue. By repute he was a cultured and able man, who supported the Glorious Revolution in 1688. When he heard of a ship entering Workington harbour with arms and ammunition for the garrison of James II at Carlisle in October that year, Hudleston and Sir John Lowther armed their servants and tenants and marched them to coast, where the crew of the ship surrendered in one of the first acts of loyalty towards William III. Apart from ermine markings, hatching on late seventeenth-century arms is often used merely to indicate contrast, as is evident here in the impaled arms. The Lawson blazon is ‘per pale argent and sable a chevron counterchanged’; the diagonal lines running top right to bottom left would normally indicate the unusual colour purpure. There appear to be two versions of Hudleston arms: ‘gules a fret argent’ is found in many printed sources, but this alternative form ‘gules fretty argent’ is recorded in The Noble and Gentle Men of England etc, Evelyn Philip Shirley, 1859. NOTE ON THE PURCHASE OF SILVER CONNECTED TO THE HUDLESTON FAMILY. Lord Fairhaven was christened Huttleston after his maternal great-grandmother, Mary Eldredge Huttleston (1811-1899), who married Rowland Rogers (1809-1861). As the spellings of names varied until recent times, the surname Huttleston might easily have been spelled Huddleston or Hudleston. Lord Fairhaven asked the Royal College of Arms to trace a link between his family and that of Father John Hudleston. They were unable to do so, but that did not discourage him from buying both this tankard and the porringer (516497), which Christie’s inventory of 1971 describes as being ‘said to have been originally the property of Father John Hudleston OSB’. Jane Ewart, 2025 Heraldry by Gale Glynn
Provenance
Andrew Hudleston (1603-1672) (Urban) Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven (1896-1966) bequeathed by Lord Fairhaven to the National Trust along with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, the Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
On the side of the tankard and on the cover : Hallmarks: ‘f’ (1683/4), lion passant (sterling), leopard’s head (London), and ‘OS’ (Osmond Strickland*) *David Mitchell: Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, London, 2017, pp 426-7 On the bottom of the handle : Hallmark: ‘OS’ On the underside of the base: Current NT Inventory Number: 516517
Makers and roles
Osmond Strickland, goldsmith