Rare Charles II Tankard Silver. Smooth, slightly conical body with volute handle on a profiled base ring. The flat hinged lid, set off once, with a split thumb rest. The broad back of the handle with the dot-engraved monogram "A.Y. A.K.", dated 1677. marks: Attributed to the Waveney Valley district, with ligatured master's mark TS in the shield and figurative marks fleur-de-lys and leopard's head mark, circa 1680, cf. Jackson p. 347. H 14.5 cm, weight 564 g. Probably Waveney Valley/Suffolk, circa 1677. The Waveney Valley lies along the River Waveney on the border between Norfolk and Suffolk. Provenance Verst. Sotheby's London, 20. 10. 1988, lot 105; Westphalian private collection. Literature On the type see Charles Nicholas Moore, English Provincial Silver Tankards, in: Antiques, vol. 134, August 1988, p. 304 ff. Cf. also cat. English, Irish and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, New York 1997, no. 7 ff. The marks of our tankard probably illustrated by Jackson p. 347.