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Pugin. Pugin designed it in collaboration with the Birmingham manufacturer John Hardman & Co. Most of their  designs were for church furnishings.<br><br><b>Design & Designing</b><br>A.W.N. Pugin may have seen dishes with similar ornament in Italy, which he visited in 1847, a year before this piece was made. The manufacturers' ledger entry, dated  18 April 1848, records:  'Large Silver Dish in Florentine Pattern, with enamels in Centre of Arms. Dish beaten in sections etc. £37.15s'. The design originally came from Germany. Brass dishes from centres such as Nuremberg were exported and copied all over Europe between 1475 and 1525.<br><br><b>People</b><br>In 1847, A.W.N. Pugin wished to marry Helen Lumsdaine, a vicar's daughter, who promised to convert to Roman Catholicism. Her family did not approve and Henry Benson, a friend and neighbour of A.W.N. Pugin, tried unsuccessfully to reconcile the bride's family to the marriage. He was given the dish as a token of A.W.N. Pugin's gratitude.","physicalDescription":"Dish, silver, parcel-gilt and enamel.  Circular; the print in the central depression enamelled in black, blue and green with thew arms and crest of Benson, bordered by spiralling ribbed convex lobes, gilt.  Beyond, the inscription `+Henry Benson+Esquire+from his grateful friend A+W+Pugin+March XXVI+A+D+MDCCCXLVIII'.  The edge of the depression filled with broad, concave lobes, also spiralling; the wide border engraved with a running pattern of trefoil-headed foliage.  The mouldings at the edge and elsewhere, gilt.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"A.W. 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Pugin (born in London, 1812, died in Ramsgate, Kent, 1852); made by John Hardman & Co., Birmingham.\r\n\r\nThe surviving day books of Pugin's manufactures document all his designs for the firm.  The following entry, dated 18th April, 1848, in the day book for 1845-49 refers to this piece:  `A large Silver Dish in Florentine pattern, with Enamels in Centre of Arms.'  Dish beaten in sections etc. 37-15s.  The dish is referred to by Shirley Bury in the Victoria and Albert Museum Yearbook, 1, 1969, pp.85-96.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Dish, silver, parcel-gilt and enamel, Birmingham, 1847-8, mark of John Hardman and Company, designed by A.W.N. 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