Pot
ca. 1550-1560 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Cup, Cage
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, with silver-gilt cage mounts |
| Brief description | Lead-glazed earthenware pot with silver gilt mounts. England, about 1570. |
| Physical description | Cup, Cage |
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| Marks and inscriptions |
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| Gallery label | Treasures of the Royal Courts: Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tsars label text:
Two pots
1550–60; about 1570
Common ceramic vessels were often embellished with silver mounts. Merchants’ marks or coats of arms engraved on the silver recorded ownership.
The 16th-century silver leaves clasping the handle of the imported stoneware vessel are not a good fit and must be a later marriage. The earthenware pot is English and embellished with gilded silver casing inspired by ornament from North Africa and Spain.
Earthenware pot: England; earthenware with gilded silver cage mounts
Stoneware pot: white Siegburg stoneware with silver mounts
V&A M.351-1910, 130-1908 |
| Object history | Purchase - £400 From Mrs M.L. Sorby |
| Bibliographic reference | V&A Catalogue, 1965, pl. 13a and b
V&A Catalogue, 1970, pl. 7b
Glanville, P.G., Silver in Tudor and early Stuart England, London |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.351-1910 |
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| Record created | May 10, 1999 |
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