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AN IMPORTANT SCOTTISH SILVER COMMUNION CUP
maker's mark of George Craufuird, Edinburgh, 1621, deacon's mark of James Denneistoun
on a plain spreading circular foot with flanged base, chased between with a band of stylised flowerheads and scrolls, the plain baluster stem rising from a fluted knop and supporting a shallow circular bowl
Height 8.5in. (21.5cm); diameter of bowl 6.75in. (17.1cm); depth of bowl 2.5in (6.4cm); diameter of foot 4.7in (11.8cm)
marked beneath the upper rim, three marks: G and stylised C in monogram for George Craufuird; Edinburgh castle town mark; JD in monogram for James Denneistoun. Also with at least four 'tryar's' or assay wrigglework grooves.
19.5oz
Provenance:
Gifted to Inveresk church by Alexander Seton, Chancellor of Scotland and later the first Earl of Dunfermline.
See Front Cover
maker's mark of George Craufuird, Edinburgh, 1621, deacon's mark of James Denneistoun
on a plain spreading circular foot with flanged base, chased between with a band of stylised flowerheads and scrolls, the plain baluster stem rising from a fluted knop and supporting a shallow circular bowl
Height 8.5in. (21.5cm); diameter of bowl 6.75in. (17.1cm); depth of bowl 2.5in (6.4cm); diameter of foot 4.7in (11.8cm)
marked beneath the upper rim, three marks: G and stylised C in monogram for George Craufuird; Edinburgh castle town mark; JD in monogram for James Denneistoun. Also with at least four 'tryar's' or assay wrigglework grooves.
19.5oz
Provenance:
Gifted to Inveresk church by Alexander Seton, Chancellor of Scotland and later the first Earl of Dunfermline.
See Front Cover