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Porringer: M.6-1950

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Silversmith: Green, Richard

Entities

Categories

Description

Silver: embossed and chased with spiral fluting, a ropework border and a scrolling cartouche

Silver; the inverted bell-shaped bowl with tucked-in base and flat bottom between two double-scroll cast handles. The lower third of the body embossed with spiral fluting beneath a ropework girdle and three punched borders of stylised leaves. In the centre front is a vacant oval cartouche within an embossed border of scalework, scrolls and leaves

Notes

History note: Not known before testator; retained during her lifetime by Mrs Riches

Legal notes

T.H. Riches Bequest, 1935

Measurements and weight

Height: 9 cm
Height: 3½ in
Weight: 210 g
Weight: 6: 15 oz: dwt

Place(s) associated

  • London ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1935) by Riches, Thomas Henry

Dating

18th Century, Early#
Queen Anne
1705 CE - 1706 CE

Components of the work

Across The Handles Width 16 cm Width 6 1/4 in
Body
Decoration
Handles

Materials used in production

Silver

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: Britannia

  • Location: On the outside of the rim
  • Method of creation: Struck
  • Type: Hallmark
  • Text: lion's head erased
  • Location: On the outside of the rim
  • Method of creation: Struck
  • Type: Hallmark
  • Text: k
  • Location: On the outside of the rim
  • Method of creation: Struck
  • Type: Hallmark
  • Text: G enclosing R
  • Location: On the outside of the rim
  • Method of creation: Struck
  • Type: Maker's mark

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: M.6-1950
Primary reference Number: 119243
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 30 June 2016 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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