Mazer
1921-1922 (made)
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| Materials and techniques | Maplewood with silver and enamel mounts |
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| Credit line | Given by Miss M.A.M. Hart |
| Object history | Hart Gift Label: Omar Ramsden trained at the Sheffield School of Art but spent his career in London. He set up in partnership with Alwyn Carr in 1899. After the First World War, Carr left the partnership and Ramsden ran the studio alone. He was particularly successful in producing well made silver in a fashionable Arts and Crafts style. After Carr left tthe partnership, Ramsden became increasingly fascinated by medieval mazer bowls, producing a series modelled on those acquired by the Museum in 1906 (case 8 Room 65). Ramsden's interest in historic silver had been kindled by the antiquary, St John Hope who introduced him to the first Keeper of Metalwork, William Watts. The scene on the 'print', the enamelled boss in the centre of the bowl is of St. Martin giving a cloak to a beggar. |
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| Accession number | M.17-1974 |
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| Record created | March 3, 2004 |
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