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Five Georgian Pewter Plates,

Five Georgian Pewter Plates, second and third quarters 19th century, including one by Burgum and Catcott of Bristol and Littledean, Gloucestershire, working ca. 1768-1779; a pair by Henry Little of London, working ca. 1734-1755; and two with rubbed marks, one of which bears an unusual owner's crest of three sea-lions, dia. 9-1/2". Pewterers Henry Burgum and George Symes Catcott were the principal patrons (and dupes) of forger Thomas Chatterton (1752-1755) and his infamous "Rowley" poems; scathing but amusing portraits of Catcott may be found in Boswell's Life of Johnson, April 29, 1776 and Stanley Hutton's Bristol and its Famous Associations (Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1907), pp. 60-68, passim.

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