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Contemporary paintings show vessels of this form being used as wine cups.  Their fashionability during the Elizabethan period is illustrated by the fact that a state lottery in 1567 offered seventy-eight tazzas as prizes.  Though plain on the outside, this piece is engraved and embossed within so the decoration became apparent as the bowl was emptied.\r\n\r\nThis piece is an example of 16th century domestic silver. Such silver was both functional and ornamental. Objects for dining and drinking took elegant forms and were decorated in the latest styles. Beautifully crafted items intended only for display often adopted functional forms such as cups and dishes. Domestic silver was not confined to the most wealthy. Many people owned silver spoons or mounted vessels, items which often became treasured possessions.\r\n\r\nSir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes.  Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.","physicalDescription":"This standing bowl comprises a silver-gilt shallow circular bowl standing on a spreading domed foot. The bowl is plain on the outer surface but is engraved on the inside with birds, fruit and strapwork, all of which surrounds an embossed classical bust. The foot is stamped on the border with egg-and-dart ornament and is embossed with sprays of fruit and strapwork. The stem has a compressed spherical knop at the middle point and this is all flat-chased with strapwork on a tooled matted ground.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver-gilt","id":"x37998"}],"techniques":[{"text":"raising","id":"AAT237068"},{"text":"casting","id":"AAT53104"},{"text":"chasing","id":"AAT54016"},{"text":"flat chasing","id":"AAT233402"},{"text":"stamping (marking)","id":"AAT239001"},{"text":"embossing","id":"AAT53826"},{"text":"engraving (incising)","id":"AAT53829"},{"text":"gilding","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Raised, cast, chased, flat-chased, stamped, embossed and engraved silver-gilt","categories":[{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Food vessels & Tableware","id":"THES48952"},{"text":"Drinking","id":"THES48965"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2009CC6637","2009CR4282","2009CC6478","2009CC6476","2009CC6473"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"006","id":"THES409944"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"standing bowl","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"hallmarked","id":"x32454"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1583-1584","earliest":"1583-05-19","latest":"1584-05-18"},"association":{"text":"hallmarked","id":"x32454"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"13.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"16.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"400","unit":"g","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Updated with measurements taken 20/12/23 by Issy Warnham","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"A snail","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"This maker's mark of a snail is recorded in Jackson, p.103."},{"content":"London hallmarks for 1583-4","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"Provenance:\r\nLt. Col. H.R. Crompton-Roberts, sale, Christie's lot 47, 8th June 1921;\r\nMrs. Davis Callander, sale, Christie's, lot 127, 25th September 1946;\r\nSale, Sotheby's, lot 109, 9th July 1964.\r\nAcquired by Arthur Gilbert from S.J. Phillips Ltd, London, 1983.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Silver-gilt, London hallmarks for 1583-4, mark, a snail, (unidentified)","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Schroder, Timothy.  'Early English silver rarities'.  <u>The Antique Collector</u>.  June 1986, vol. 57, no. 6, fig. 6, p. 121."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Schroder, Timothy. <u>The Gilbert collection of gold and silver</u>. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no.10, p. 62-5.  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