Identifier: wiltshirearchaeo2518godd (find matches)
Title: The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Goddard, Edward Hungerford, 1854- Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Proceedings
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: (Devizes, Eng. : The Society)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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s, as a rule, com-pared with the large cups which came into fashion at the end of theseventeenth and throughout the eighteenth century, with deep moreor less bell-shaped bowls, bearing almost invariably either one ortwo bands of the strap-work engraving, filled with conventionalfoliage characteristic of the period; a similar band sometimes en-circling the base also. They were always accompanied by a coverfitting the cup, which was also used as the paten,—the handle servingas a foot when so used. Sometimes there is a belt of foliage on thecover, as in Fig. 2, whilst on the handle or foot is commonly inscribedthe date when the vessel was acquired for the Church. This datein the north of the county is commonly either 1576 or 1577. Theearliest is that at Bradford, marked 1564, and the latest of thetype that of Burbage, marked 1624, when, as a rule, the cup hadassumed a slightly different shape. The Crudweil cup of 1628 isof Elizabethan shape, but has inscribed within the belt The Parish
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By the Rev. E. H. Ooddard. 343 Cup of Crudwell Anno 1628 in the place of foliage. The edgeof the base is very often enriched with the egg-and-dart ornament,and a belt of dotted lines sometimes takes the place of the foliageon the bowl, the cover, and the base. A considerable number ofthese cups bear only a makers mark, or no marks at all, and seemto have been of local manufacture. There is a series of cups withouthall marks in the Pewsey Vale at Wootton Rivers, ManningfordBruce. Stanton St. Bernard, and Etchilhampton, all of the samecharacter and unlike any others in the north of the county exceptone at Little Hinton. They have a broad belt of interlacingstrap-work, without any foliage, of the same character as the orna-mentation of so many cups in Dorset which Mr. Nightingalesupposes to have been of local make, but their stems and knots areof the usual Elizabethan type. There are, however, two others—those of Enford and Great Cheverell—also in the same neighbour-hood, which have

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