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Christening Bowl

1864-1865 (made)
Artist/Maker
Hunt & Roskell (maker)
Place of origin
London (made)

Deep bowl with slightly domed cover with a central knop. Both parts engraved with a diaper of posies of flowers of woven ornament.


Object details

Categories
Access_to_Images 2003
Metalwork
Children & Childhood
Christianity
Religion
Object type
Christening bowl
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Bowl
  • Cover for a Bowl
Materials and techniques
Silver, gilt interior, raised, engraved, cast finial
Silver
Gold
Raising
Engraving (Incising)
Gilding
Brief description
Silver, parcel-gilt, London hallmarks for 1864-5, mark of JS Hunt for Hunt & Roskell
Physical description
Deep bowl with slightly domed cover with a central knop. Both parts engraved with a diaper of posies of flowers of woven ornament.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 12.25cm
  • Height: 10cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • London hallmarks for 1864-5 (Base: maker ISH for John Samuel Hunt of Hunt & Roskell, sterling, duty, date, leopard plus 'HUNT & ROSKELL' and '3042'; Inside lid: maker sterling, leopard, duty, date 1863-4; Finial: maker, sterling, duty; Finial nut: sterling)
  • Mark of John Samuel Hunt of Hunt and Roskell
  • Engraved underneath: HUNT & ROSKELL 3042 late STORR & MORTIMER
Gallery label
SET OF CHRISTENING MUG AND BOWL AND COVER Silver, gilt inside London, 1864-5; maker's mark of J.S. Hunt of Hunt & Roskell, successors to Storr & Mortimer, inscribed "HUNT & ROSKELL late STORR & MORTIMER" on base Bequesthed byu Mrs. M.V. Cunliffe M.5, 12-1963(1974)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mrs M.V. Cunliffe
Object history
Acquisition RF: 62 / 3371
Bequest - Mrs M V Cunliffe
From christening set (see M.5-1963)

Neg._No: JE 2130
Subject depicted
Flowers
Associated object
M.5-1963 (Object)
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
M.12:1, 2-1963

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Record createdMarch 8, 2004
Record URL
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