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 237

An illustration from 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, leaf 237 — ng examples of old English plate mazers are of conspicuousinterest (figs. 49 and 151). These are shallow drinking-cups usually-made of the spotted or birds-eye maple, whence the name, whichis of German origin and signifies a spot ; they are not to be con-founded with the ordinary wooden or treen… … Fig. 151.—The Rochester mazer with name of Robert Peacham and London date-letter for 1532-3. within the category of silver plate. They are without handles,and have round the rim an ornamental silver (rarely gold orcopper) band almost always with an inscription, a low or highmetal foot, and a metal…

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