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Mazer: AAL.28-2009

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Assayed: Unknown

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Description

Maple wood bowl turned with shallow circular foot. The spreading silver gilt rim engraved at the junction to the bowl with a band of formal leaves and stamped with narrow bands of formal ornament, and with moulded lip. The moulded silver gilt boss inset with a print of a flower, formerly enamelled, and with similar engraved border to rim.
In the bowl, probably at a slightly later date, is an applied small scroll nielloed in black with the Sacred monogram in Gothic letters - INRI.

Notes

History note: Previously owned by Mary Eliza Cornwallis Douglas of Boxley, Kent (in 1933). From the collection of James Whatman of Kent - paper maker.

Legal notes

Lent by Jonathan Gray of The Bill Gray Collection

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 16.5 cm
Height: 5.7 cm

Place(s) associated

  • London ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Loan (2009) by Gray, Jonathan

Dating

Edward IV
15th Century#
Production date: circa AD 1470

Components of the work

Mostly composed of maple
Some composed of silver

Materials used in production

Silver-gilt

Techniques used in production

Moulding
Turning
Engraved
Stamping (marking)
Niello

Identification numbers

Accession number: AAL.28-2009
Primary reference Number: 184534
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 20 June 2022 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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