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Cup and cover (known as the ‘Founder’s cup’)
Silver-gilt
Origin: London
Date: 1515-1516
20.2 cm height; 14 cm width
Marks/Maker: London, 1515-16, maker’s mark indecipherable
On loan from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, by generous permission of the President and Fellows; LI.305.5
The finial is engraved with royal emblems; the Tudor Rose, the pomegranate and the fleur-de-lis