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Silversmith: Noyes, Henry
Silver, two-handled porringer and cover with chased stylised flowers within arches
Silver, raised, with cast handles, and flat-chased and punched decoration. 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.
History note: Not known before Leonard Daneham Cunliffe
L.D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937
Height: 12 cm
Height: 4¾ in
Weight: 400 g
Weight: 12: 17 oz: dwt
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
Commonwealth
17th Century, Mid#
1657
CE
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1658
CE
The mark HN with a bird holding an olive branch below in plain shield ia most likely to have been that of Henry Noyes, who became free of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1640 and died in 1666. The initials might also be those of Henry Neale, but his trade is uncertain, whereas Noyes wasn definitely a plateworker and took on several apprentices between 1647 and 1662.
Cover
Diameter 11.1 cm
Width 4⅜ in
Across The Handles
Width 16.8 cm
Width 6½ in
Body
Decoration
Matted Decoration
Ring Handle
Two Handles
Accession number: M/P.7 & A-1938
Primary reference Number: 118259
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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