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Tumbler cup
Silver
Origin: London
Date: 1684-1685
8.7 cm diameter; 6.7 cm height; 211 g weight
Marks/Maker: London, sterling standard, 1684-5, maker's mark of Thomas Jenkins
Heraldry: Possibly the arms of Broome of Caunton or Herefordshire
Bequeathed by A. T. Carter, 1947; WA1947.32
T. Schroder (2009), no. 25
Thomas Jenkins, one of the leading goldsmith-bankers of the period, is usually associated with large-scale and important plate, but his business clearly extended to the supply of ordinary domestic plate too.
Information derived from T. Schroder, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean (2009)
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