Silver bowl with a coat of arms, by William Williamson (base)

An image of Bowl. Williamson, William, silversmith, Dublin. The almost hemispherical bowl standing on a low collet foot, the side engraved with a coat-of-arms, crest and motto within a baroque cartouche. Silver, raised body and engraved armorials, height, to rim, 9.6 cm, diameter, top of bowl, 17.5 cm, weight, whole, 520 g, 1732-1733.

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Bowl. Williamson, William, silversmith, Dublin. The almost hemispherical bowl standing on a low collet foot, the side engraved with a coat-of-arms, crest and motto within a baroque cartouche. Silver, raised body and engraved armorials, height, to rim, 9.6 cm, diameter, top of bowl, 17.5 cm, weight, whole, 520 g, 1732-1733.

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Accession Number: MAR.M.35-1912
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/20.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 683 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 141.84kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 20/1
Captured: 2008:04:19 00:05:02

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18th Century _WF_base bowl hallmark Irish mark Silver silverware stamp stamped William Williamson

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