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Title: The Worshipful Company of Painters, otherwise Painter-Stainers : its hall, pictures, and plate
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Pitman, Walter Hayward
Subjects: Worshipful Company of Painters (London, England)
Publisher: London : (Imprinted by Blades, East & Blades)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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end of the stem holding a shield, engravedwith one quartering of the Companys arms, viz., achevron between three phoenix heads. The date is 76 The Painter-Stainers Company. 1560, the second year of Elizabeth. There are 22other spoons with seal tops, six of these are also1560, same date as the last, and a careful inspectionleads us to believe at one time they had similarfigures and shields as the Image spoons, but forsome cause these were removed. Then ten moreseal top spoons, date 1567, engraved with the samequartering of the Companys arms. Still six moreseal top spoons of various dates, marked withnaming and letters, as though they were family orchristening spoons. One circa 1580, engraved. 15821584159115981599 all, therefore, of the reign of Elizabeth. P.R.K.W. Ananias. 6 X 15 T.C. C.B. R.I.C. The oldest drinking cup is known as the Fryercup, no hall mark, but probable date 1605, secondyear of James I, and it stands 12 inches high. Itis of beautiful design and excellent workmanship.
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u C u a; M u :; d DQ The Painter-Stainers Company. 77 The inscription is Leonhart Fryer, SergiauntPainter, gave this, A°- 1605. The Camden cup is our most valuable piece, andis silver gilt. Its date is 1623, the 2olh year ofJames I. It stands 24 inches high; the cover issurmounted with a figure of Minerva holding a shieldengraved with arms. The inscription is GulielmusCamdenus, Clarencieux, Filius Sampsonis, PictorisLondinensis, Dono dedit. This cup was purchased with ^16, which amountwas bequeathed to the Company by Camden tobuy them a piece of plate in memorial of me.(Will, 1622.) The mark is now too indistinctto discover the makers name, but it was possiblyF. Terry. I suggest this, since the Corporation ofPortsmouth have a somewhat similar cup, which isknown to be the work of this F. Terry. A standing salt with cover, 16 inches high,engraved with the Companys arms, and inscribed, The gift of Mr. John Beeston to the Company ofye Painter Stainers. A minute records that it was 78 The

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