Mazer
ca. 1600 (made)
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Round painted spruce or larchwood bowl on silver ring base, engraved silver vertical straps and an engraved silver lip decorated with laurel leaves; the base of the inside of the bowl has a print inscribed with the Sacred Monogram IHS.
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Materials and techniques | Silver, painted boxwood |
Brief description | Silver, Continental |
Physical description | Round painted spruce or larchwood bowl on silver ring base, engraved silver vertical straps and an engraved silver lip decorated with laurel leaves; the base of the inside of the bowl has a print inscribed with the Sacred Monogram IHS. |
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Gallery label | Silver Gallery:
Mazer wood bowls were made across much of medieval northern Europe, including England. They are often inscribed with the Sacred Monogram (IHS) . A Norwegian origin for this bowl is suggested by the engraved name, 'Helge Nielsen'.(26/11/2002) |
Object history | From Catalogue of Scandinavian and Baltic Silver, RW Lightbown, V&A, 1975: 'The bowl was acquired as Swedish, sixteenth century. In 1949 Dr Boesen of Rosenborg Castle informed the Department that the name Neilsen was unlikely to be Swedish, but might be either Danish or Norwegian.' Roskilde is an unlikely attribution. 'The barred R is a mark well known to Norwegian scholars. The name of the goldsmith has not been identified, but he was probably from Bergen and working presumably c. 1600.' |
Production | Mark R, unidentified |
Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of Scandinavian and Baltic Silver, RW Lightbown, V&A, 1975; Scandinavian Domestic Silver, Charles Oman, V&A 1959
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Accession number | M.38-1929 |
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Record created | February 9, 2004 |
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