Bowl
Wolfgang Howzer
Category
Silver
Date
1658 - 1664
Materials
Silver-gilt, glass
Measurements
16.1 x 23 x 14.4 cm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516443.1
Summary
An ovoid red glass bowl or cup with silver-gilt mounts, handles and foot, London, circa 1660, mark of Wolfgang Howzer. At the base an undecorated circular foot ring is soldered to the slightly domed base, which is embossed and chased with four panels of overlapping acanthus leaves round a sunflower on a matted ground. Screwed to its surface are four cast triple-scrolled feet, which are soldered to a cross-shaped support for the blown, undecorated, red glass bowl. Four vertical straps, embossed with grotesque masks whose long beards descend into acanthus leaves, are held by hinges at the base and the rim mount. The mount’s band of clasps is scalloped and lightly chased with a fringe of dots. Above is a narrow gadrooned border and a slightly everted rim. The two handles, each cast in the form of a greyhound standing on an S-shaped scroll, are soldered to straps on either side of the body. Heraldry: None
Full description
For further details see master object entry.
Provenance
(Urban) Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven (1896-1966) bequeathed by Lord Fairhaven to the National Trust along with the house and the rest of the contents National Trust
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, the Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
On the side of the spool on the cover: Sponsor's mark: 'WH' (Wolfgang Howzer*) *David M. Mitchell: Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London Their Lives and Marks, London, 2017, pp 582-3
Makers and roles
Wolfgang Howzer, goldsmith