Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 137
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.… … These three cups, which in form resemble the Venetianglass cups of the same period, are very good specimens ofthe different styles of small drinking-cups used in Englandfrom about 1550 to 1700. No. 61 was sold for £^20 inthe Dunn-Gardner sale. A cup shaped like No. 60 was used as a communioncup in…
Plate · Silverwork · Hallmarks
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