English silver porringer with Janus head thumb-pieces

An image of Porringer. Two-handled cup and cover. HN, silversmith, England, London. Two-handled porringer and cover with chased stylised flowers within arches. The circular bowl slopes inwards towards the rim, and has two cast scroll handles with thumb-pieces in the from of a 'Janus head'. The circular cover, is slightly domed and has a ring handle of twisted wire. The bowl is decorated round the lower part with flat-chased arches, each enclosing a formal trefoil headed plant with four leaves. The cover is similarly decorated. Silver, raised, with cast handles, and flat-chased and punched decoration, height, overall, 12 cm, width, across the handles, 16.8 cm, diameter, cover, 11.1 cm, weight, whole, 400 g, 1657-1658. Baroque. Commonwealth.

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Porringer. Two-handled cup and cover. HN, silversmith, England, London. Two-handled porringer and cover with chased stylised flowers within arches. The circular bowl slopes inwards towards the rim, and has two cast scroll handles with thumb-pieces in the from of a 'Janus head'. The circular cover, is slightly domed and has a ring handle of twisted wire. The bowl is decorated round the lower part with flat-chased arches, each enclosing a formal trefoil headed plant with four leaves. The cover is similarly decorated. Silver, raised, with cast handles, and flat-chased and punched decoration, height, overall, 12 cm, width, across the handles, 16.8 cm, diameter, cover, 11.1 cm, weight, whole, 400 g, 1657-1658. Baroque. Commonwealth.

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Accession Number: M/P.7 & A-1938
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/1.0
Camera: NIKON D70
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 747 pixels
Image width: 938 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
Filesize: 582.17kB
Exposure time: 1/60
Captured: 2007:07:10 10:46:19

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17th Century arch arches Baroque cast chased Commonwealth cover covered cup cup cup and cover English Fitz_AA floral flowers handle handled handles Janus lidded plants porringer punched raised scrolls Silver silverware trefoil twisted two handled two-handled

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