Historic silver of the Colonies and its makers (1917)
Bigelow, Francis Hill, 1859-1933 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 179
n St. MarysChurch, Great Brington, in Northamptonshire,the burial place of Robert Washington and hiswife Elizabeth, is a plain flagon dated 1605-06.The shape of these flagons was retained through-out the seventeenth century, while the Jacobeandecoration was abandoned about 1620. Theflagons of… … bases. These plaincylindrical flagonswith their brightsurfaces reflectinglight and shade areunsurpassed indig-nity and in purityof form. The cylindricalflagon (Illus. 75)of the Common-wealth period, withthe London date-letter for 1649-50and the makers, mark TG, with thethumb-piece bro-ken, is…
Silverwork -- United States
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