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Fruit Dish
Silversmith: Alexander, Philip Frederick
Silver; circular with slightly everted rim, hammered pierced embossed and chased with openwork border of roses and stylised leaves.
Silver, hammered, pierced, embossed and chased, and punched. Circular with slightly everted rim, deep curved sides, and slightly convex centre. The surface on both sides is hammered. Round the top of the sides where they curve out towards the edge, there is a border of ten embossed and chased wild roses linked by stems with three pairs of leaves, with the background cut away. Round the edge there is a narrow line of punching.
History note: Given to Miss Philpott with M.5-1999 in appreciation of her services as Secretary of the Cambridge Arts and Crafts Society, by members of the Society in May 1913. Terence Hodgkinson (7th October 1913 - 4th October 1999)
Given by Terence Hodgkinson
Weight: 360 g
Weight: 11 : 11 oz : dwt
Method of acquisition: Given (1999) by Hodgkinson, Terence
20th Century, Early
Edward V
1912
CE
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1913
CE
Across Rim
Diameter 3.7 cm
Diameter 9⅝ in
To Rim
Height 3.9 cm
Height 1⅜ in
Decoration
Hammered : Silver, hammered, pierced, embossed and chased, and punched
Inscription present: maker's mark in 'P.F.A' in oval punch
Inscription present: lion passant
Inscription present: leopard's head
Accession number: M.4-1999
Primary reference Number: 28842
Entry form number: 113
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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