Old plate, ecclesiastical, decorative, and domestic; its makers and marks (1888)
Buck, J. H. (John Henry), 1849-1914 · New-York, The Gorham Manufacturing Company · leaf 129
BASINS. made out of the ewers and basins which their invention rendered superfluous. The few now remaining are used for sideboard decoration, or for handing rose-water after din- ner, and the most ancient of them are only of the middle of the XVI. century. The salvers of the xvii. and the beginning… … NO. 29. — SAXiVER {c. 1690); the property op in engraving plate MR. p. H. BETTS. for Ellis Gramble, the silversmith, to whom he was apprenticed in 1712 ; and sal- vers or waiters decorated by him are still to be seen. The plainer salvers of this date have often a gadrooned edge. This style of…
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