Lot 217: JOHN TALMAN

LONDON 1677-1726
A COPPER, GILT AND ENAMEL FONT
Watercolour over traces of pencil, heightened with gold paint, on laid paper, watermarked with the Strasburg Lily, unframed;
inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper centre: Font / A Pix or of. Copper Gilt and enamelld. [sic]; further inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower centre: The Body is adorned with Six pounds where on are figured as many Storys, out of / the Old Testament, alludeing [sic] to the Sacrament and in the fascia over the said rounds are inscriptions / in Blew [sic] enamell [sic] explaining each history. about august 1717 it was bought at a Braziers shop in Lond.
231 by 310 mm

With The Fry Gallery, London, by 1970, by whom sold in 1970 to Walter Brandt