ECS-S.115-2015

Parts

Object number

ECS-S.115-2015

Object type

cup

Identification

Title

Steeple Cup

Description

Steeple cup and cover (minus the steeple and 3 brackets)

Comments

Cup and cover

Other number

115

Description

Dimensions

height (actual size): 252mm

Dimension note

Inscription

Inscribed on the cup: 'The gift of Mrs Sarah Barlow / of Lockerly in Hampshire who / departed this life ye 31st Augt. 1710 in / ye 85 year of her age.'
Inscribed on the foot: 'Worplesdon in Surrey 1800'

Inscription description

Leopards head crowned
Lion passant
Date mark: 1616-1617
Maker's mark: T

Material

silver

Physical description

Steeple cup and cover (minus the steeple and three brackets). The cup is egg shaped resting on a short baluster stem with a circular foot ring. The domed cover rests on a circular strip which sits inside the cup rim. Cover, bowl and foot are embossed and chased in stylized foliate leaf forms (possibly pomegranates).

Production

Person

Unknown (Silversmith)

Date

1616-1617

History and association

Object history note

First owner probably Matthew Bust, (Headmaster 1611-1620) from whom it descended to his daughter Sarah who married first, Nicholas Hobart donor of the great Salt, and secondly, Matthew Barlow, Vice Provost until 1664.
See Jones p. 63 for extensive history