Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 136
No. 58. Hanap or Standing Cup (1616) Height, 25 inchesAt St. Johns College, Cambridge A radical departure was made in the form of the standingcup of the second half of the sixteenth century. The above, though later in date, is a beautiful example ofa typical Elizabethan design. It is richly… … The early seventeenth century was the period of the in-verted cone-shape cup, but there are a few in existence knownto have been made about fifty years later. Instead of a statuette on the cover, a steeple generally ap-pears, in this respect resembling the steeple salts of the sameera. (See No.…
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