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Description: | Silver cup or chalice. Tapering beaker shaped bowl, with curved base and baluster stem, the dome foot is detatched. Hallmarks on the outer rim of the bowl - unclear maker's mark, Leaopard's head crowned (London), lion passant, date letter for 1638. Hallmark on the lower surface of the foot - lion passant. There are also two sets of scratched graffiti initials on the lower surface of the foot, one AI(or J), the other I(or J)A. There is solder and some copper staining where the stem has broken off from the foot. Approx height if base and stem joined 18mm, diameter of base 89.5mm, height of base c.34mm, maximum diameter of stem c.25mm, length of stem c.55, height of cup c.82mm, diameter of cup c.102mm, weight of base 67.56g, weight of cup & stem >200g.
This is almost identical to a Communion chalice from St John the Baptist church in Boyleston, Derbyshire, dated 1639, published in Derbyshire Archaeological Journal Vol LXXXI (1961) p37, no.187, Plate XXXIIa; described as "A domestic cup with a tapering beaker-shaped bowl with curved base, on a baluster stem and domed foot. Maker's mark TS in monogram. Height 5 13/16 in., diameter 13 11/16 in., base 3 5/16 in., depth ofbowl 2 3/4 in., weight 7 oz 17 dwt.".
Treasure Report (Rachel Atherton, Sept 2005)
"Chalice (2005 T320)
Date: 1638-9
A silver chalice, with beaker-shaped bowl, baluster stem and spreading circular foot. The foot presently separated from the stem. The beaker hallmarked with an indistinct maker?s mark, the crowned leopard head for London, the lion passant, and date letter for 1638-9. The foot hallmarked with the lion passant on the underneath, and scratched on the underneath with ?AI? and ?JA?. Scratched, tarnished and with some signs of corrosion.
This example is similar to a chalice from the Church of St John the Baptist, Boyleston, Derbyshire (see Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, vol. LXXXI, 1961, p. 137, no. 187, pl. XXXIIa)." | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1638 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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