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Acquisitions, Gifts and Loans / 41 Three pieces of silver gilt Purchased from the Cassel collection through Sotheby’s with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the National Art Collections Fund, the Central Purchase Fund and the Friends of the Ashmolean with the help of donations from Mrs Diane Bacon and Mrs Helen Smyth in memory of their Grandfather A H Whiteley; Mr and Mrs Brian Wilson; Mr and Mrs Michael Pix; Lady Heseltine; and various other donors. (The Ashmolean led a consortium of nine UK museums to purchase silver items from the historic collection of Sir Ernest Cassel (1852–1921) on tax-concessionary terms). Ewer and Basin Silver-gilt, London 1592–3, diam. of basin, 41.2 cm; H. of ewer, 29.8 cm, maker’s mark: IN or TN above a mullet. Ewers and basins, used for washing hands at table before forks came into general use, were the most prestigious type of table plate in Renaissance Europe, but few matched Elizabethan pairs have survived the melting pot. The enamelled roundel on the basin has the arms of Richard Proctor, Master of the Merchant Taylors’ Company, and his wife; in his will, made in 1610, he left to his son Samuel my Bason and Ewer of silver guilte.
42 / Highlights of the Annual Report 2004–05 Salt Silver-gilt, London, 1597–8, H. 23.5 cm, maker’s mark: IB, pricked on a shield with owner’s initials YHI. Salt was of high symbolic importance on medieval and Renaissance tables and salts of this bell form were a favourite Elizabethan ‘conceit’. It comes apart in three pieces, with two wells for salt and a caster for pepper at the top. Several such ‘double bell salts’ are recorded in Oxford college inventories in the 1590s but none of these has survived.
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