Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . iven a Legacie,So like my hartt unto Posteritie. Ffas. Bassett, A0., 1640. Church Cups of this pattern are found at Bodmin, in Cornwall,Odcombe, in Somersetshire, Linton, in Kent, and several otherplaces. The Linton Cup has a small statuette with shield and longspear on the top of the triangular spire. The Bodmin Cup was brought under notice in 1879 by theeditor of our own Transactions, Sir John Maclean, in his 1 With much diffidence we are rather disposed to differ from the learnedauthor in respect to the use to which th
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . iven a Legacie,So like my hartt unto Posteritie. Ffas. Bassett, A0., 1640. Church Cups of this pattern are found at Bodmin, in Cornwall,Odcombe, in Somersetshire, Linton, in Kent, and several otherplaces. The Linton Cup has a small statuette with shield and longspear on the top of the triangular spire. The Bodmin Cup was brought under notice in 1879 by theeditor of our own Transactions, Sir John Maclean, in his 1 With much diffidence we are rather disposed to differ from the learnedauthor in respect to the use to which these handsome hanaps were intendedto be applied. For the purpose of the administration of the Holy Communionthey would be extremely inconvenient, and we are inclined to think that theywere intended for the decoration of the altar, in the manner of a of the decoration of the altar with plate yet remain in thedisplay, in some of our cathedrals and large parish churches, of alms-dishesand other like ornaments, upon the Holy table.—Ed. PLATE i Church Plate at Northleach. 193 History of Trigg Minor, and figured in that work, Vol. III., , from which he kindly contributes an illustration of it(Plate XXV.) He thus describes it: This is a standing Cup,or hanap, with a cover and stand, all of silver gilt, and is of anelegant form and richly ornamented ijp. repousse, engraved andpierced work, in arabesque style. On the stem are three project-ing curved and foliated serpent-like figures with human cover, which is hemispherical, is surmounted by a quadran-gular spire of pierced work, upon the apex of which is an armedfigure of Minerva. It is 25£ inches high, and the bowl of thecup is 5f inches in diameter. It bears the date mark of 1617-8,and the makers mark is 1 S over a rose or boss of some kind,upon a wide shaped-shield. To this account of it, by Sir JohnMaclean, it is only possible to add that a makers mark of IS, overa crescent, appears
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