A PARCEL-GILT SILVER CIRCULAR BOWL

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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER CIRCULAR BOWL
struck twice on inner rim of base and struck on inner rim of body with one large and one smaller mark, both incorporating letters, the marks indistinct, perhaps Mexico, probably 17th Century

On raised circular base decorated with a band of diaperwork, the plain spreading walls with gilt upper rim, the centre chased with a sun motif centred with the sacred insignia, the rays of the sun alternating with flower heads on a stippled ground - 22.5cm diam (435gr)

拍品專文

It is possible that the two small circular marks found on the inner rim of the base are duty marks, possibly birds, used in Mexico in 17th Century. The larger of the two marks impressed on the inner rim is clearly crowned and elongated. This may then be the assay office's mark of Mexico, found in the same period. The smaller of the two marks formed as a square punch incorporating two rows of letters is then consistent with the assay master's initials of the same period.