£
Tudor cup, 6 oz. 15 dwt. (1525) 880
“ on foot, 14 oz. 3 dwts. (1521) 4,130@
” and cover (James I) (1640), 66 oz. 4,000@
Standing cup, Charles I, 470s. per oz. 82
“ Charles II, 1 oz. 13 dwts., 520s. per oz. 42@
Loving-cup, Charles II (1678), 170s. per oz. 69
” William and Mary (1688), 165s. per oz. 88@
“ Queen Anne (1703), 120s. per oz. 140@@
TANKARDS.
James I tankard (1504) 1,720
Elizabethan tankard and cover (1599), 21 oz. 15 dwt.
(a record price) 2,300
Elizabethan (Huth sale) (1573) 1,700
Charles I plain tankard (1629), 750s. per oz. 667
Plain tankard; York; maker, Marmaduke Best (1671),
195s. per oz. 234
Commonwealth (1649), maker AF., 290s. per oz. 413
The range of prices is: Commonwealth, about £20 per oz.; Charles II, £8
to £10 per oz.; William and Mary, £4 per oz.; Anne, £2 per oz.; George
I, 20s. per oz.
BEAKERS.
£
Henry VII, silver-gilt (1496), 6 oz. 16 dwt. sold in 1902 1,270
Elizabethan (1599), 490s. per oz. 197
Charles I (1635), 315s. per oz. 73
Charles II (1662), 290s. per oz. 46
William III (1699), 170s. per oz. 66
WINE CUPS.
£
Elizabethan goblet, 7 oz., 530s. per oz. 188
Charles I, wine cup (1638), 3 oz. 14 dwts. 88
Commonwealth Goblet (1650); maker, HS., 800s. per oz. 118
PUNCH-BOWLS.
William III “Monteith” (1701), 100s. per oz. 398
Queen Anne “Monteith” (1705), 70s. per oz. 267
Punch-bowl (1750), 23s. per oz. 15
FOOTNOTES:
[3] These initials, found on a James II mug, with the date letter for
1685, are illustrated p. 369.
IV
THE
SALT CELLAR
CHAPTER IV
THE SALT CELLAR
Early salt cellars--The standing salt--The hour-glass form--The
bell-shaped salt--The seventeenth century--octagonal and circular
types--The eighteenth century--trencher salts--Tripod salts--The
openwork style with glass liner--The evolution of form in the
salt cellar of the later periods.
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