Bowl
1719-1720 (made)
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The original purpose of the bowl is difficult to define. The only certainty is that it, unlike the basket, could hold both solids and liquids. The form of the bowl as we now know it derives either from the form of a cup or basin. By the 18th century, silver bowls were of every imaginable size and served an enormous variety of purposes.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silver |
| Brief description | Bowl, silver, London hallmarks for 1719-20, mark of Issac Liger |
| Physical description | Bowl, silver, chased and engraved with foliage and shell-work enclosing a Rococo cartouche with the arms of Parsons impaling another. The edge is divided by radiating ribs into fourteen wavy scallops engraved with shell-work. |
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| Object history | Purchase from Messrs. Crichton Bros. 22 Old Bond Street, London WI Date of receipt 16th May 1911 The rim later reshaped and chased with asymetric, Rococo chasing, probably in the mid 19th century. (Philippa Glanville, 1993) |
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| Summary | The original purpose of the bowl is difficult to define. The only certainty is that it, unlike the basket, could hold both solids and liquids. The form of the bowl as we now know it derives either from the form of a cup or basin. By the 18th century, silver bowls were of every imaginable size and served an enormous variety of purposes. |
| Bibliographic reference | V&A Catalogue, 1920, No. 95, Pl. 40.
Watts, Old English Silver , 1924, Pl. 86a, pp. 87. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.501-1911 |
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| Record created | September 10, 2004 |
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