A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 134
d. 1570 to thetime of the Civil Wars(examples in FranksBequest). Simple Beakers,though mentioned in early inventories, are not found in silverbefore the beginning of the seventeenth century. Tasters, often described as bleeding-cups, are small shallowbowls with a flat handle projecting at right… … Fig. 87.—German stoneware jug with Englishsilver mounts, sixteenth century. 102 GLOSSARY the sixteenth century is in the Franks Bequest (Gold OrnamentRoom, Case S). Caudle-cups and porringers were much used in the seventeenthand early eighteenth centuries, the former for drinking posset(milk…
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