A rare 18th century pewter laver, a flat-lidded communion flagon, Scottish, circa 1740 OEAS quart,

A rare 18th century pewter laver, a flat-lidded communion flagon, Scottish, circa 1740OEAS quart, the truncated cone body with two equally spaced slender fillets, flat-lid with locating flange, wide single-curve handle with lower cylindrical strut attachment, erect twin-lobed thumbpiece, two pairs of ownership initials to drum, apparently unmarked, height 20.6cmLiterature: For a similar laver see Peter Spencer Davis, 'Scottish Pewter 1600-1850' (2014), p.159, fig. 6.41. Although the illustrated example has the mark of James Kinnieburgh, Glasgow, (fl.1789-1828), the author notes the form is fifty years earlier (Kinnieburgh was using very old moulds) and most lavers are unmarked