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Description: | Silver tea-urn presented to Captain Nicholas Tomlinson (d.1847) for capturing French privateers, 1796.
Plain vase-shaped tea-urn of octagonal form, standing on an octagonal base with four scroll feet. With a bone-topped spigot and reeded loop handles terminating in acanthus leaf decoration. The lid has a round finial. The back is engraved with the arms of Tomlinson impaling Ward, with the crest above it on the lid. The front is engraved within an oval: 'PRESENTED by the Committee for encouraging the Capture of French Privateers &c &c TO CAPTn. TOMLINSON July 8th 1796'.
It is part of a set presented to the NMM by a descendant of Admiral Tomlinson, which includes another larger tea-urn, teapot, sugar basin and cream jug.
Set: PLT0182-PLT0185.
The lid is PLT0184.1
caption: Tea-urn | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | tea urns Vice-Admiral Nicholas Tomlinson | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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