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Cover and cup: AAL.114-2009

Object information

Awaiting location update

Maker(s)

Silversmith: Cook, Erasmus

Entities

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Description

Cover (paten) - a plain paten, Mark - Fleur de Lys for Bury St Edmunds.
The bell-shaped body with slightly everted lip, encircled below the lip with a band of hit-and-miss decoration; laddered collars at the base of the bowl and joining the spool stem to a spreading domed foot with flat edge. A single fleur-de-lys on the lip.

Legal notes

Lent by Jonathan Gray of The Bill Gray Collection

Measurements and weight

Diameter (cover): 8.6 cm
Height (cover): 0.95 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Elizabeth I
16th Century
Production date: circa AD 1568

Materials used in production

Silver

Identification numbers

Accession number: AAL.114-2009
Primary reference Number: 185895
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Audit data

Created: Friday 25 November 2011 Updated: Wednesday 18 December 2024 Last processed: Saturday 22 March 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: External
Associated department: Applied Arts

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