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AN IMPORTANT AND RARE ELIZABETH I SILVER COMMUNION...

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AN IMPORTANT AND RARE ELIZABETH I SILVER COMMUNION CUP AND PATEN, LONDON, 1587


An Elizabeth I silver communion cup and paten 


Maker’s mark: C or O enclosing W or M, possibly William Cawdell 


London, 1587

The tapering cup raised on a stepped pedestal foot to a knopped stem, the cup engraved with a band of linear dashes to spaced figure-of-eight motifs, the shallow domed paten engraved with the initials WB over D*I over WT to flat knop handle. 


Provenance: Property of the Tappenden Charitable Trust


H: 19cm, Diamteres: 9.5cm, Weight: 233g