Bucket
ca. 1500 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Pewter bucket with handle.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pewter |
| Brief description | Pewter bucket with handle for holy water, possibly Flemish, ca. 1500 |
| Physical description | Pewter bucket with handle. |
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| Object history | The Museum bought this holy water bucket in 1921 for £5.5s. According to the Museum's 1921 Register the bucket may have been dug up in Whitechapel, London. |
| Bibliographic reference | Campbell, Marian. 'Found in London, made in London - London connections for some medieval metalwork in the Victoria & Albert Museum'. In: 'Hidden Histories and Records of Antiquity': Essays on Saxon and Medieval London for John Clark, Curator Emeritus, Museum of London, ed. by Jonathan Cotton, Jenny Hall, Jackie Keily, Roz Sherris and Roy Stephenson. London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Special Paper, 17. London: London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 2014. ISBN 9780903290685. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.31-1921 |
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| Record created | January 17, 2003 |
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