William Lukin I
A Fine Silver Tazza
William Lukin I
A Fine Silver Tazza
Queen Anne
London, 1708
Maker's mark of William Lukin
Height: 7.8 cm, 3 in.
Diameter: 25.1 cm, 9.9 in
Weight: 20oz, 622g
This elegant tazza resting on a trumpet foot. The plain reeded border acting as the frame for the delightful engraved mantling surrounding the cartouche which is engraved with the initials 'I.R over I. H'
William Lukin was apprenticed to St. John Hoyte on 21st June 1692 and turned over by consent to John Shephard 1698. He was made free in 1699 and entered his first mark as a large plateworker in 1699, Gutter Lane. Lukin’s second mark, entered in 1702 was as a small plateworker. Although few pieces appear to have survived bearing his mark, compared to some of his well-known contemporaries, records show that by around 1715, Lukin obtained orders for expensive pieces in the Huguenot manner, possibly employing Huguenot workers to do so.
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