Lowndes’ “Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coins,” 53, 55
Lustre ware (Staffordshire) emulating silver, 249
Makers’ names, Irish silver, list of, 345, 346
Marks illustrated-- Birmingham, 399 Chester, 395 Cork, 409 Dublin, 409 Edinburgh, 405 Exeter, 391 Glasgow, 405 London, 351-385 Newcastle, 399 Norwich, 395 Sheffield, 399 York, 395
Marks, the position of, as stamped on silver, 359; to prevent fraud, 275; used by various assay offices, 29; where placed on spoons, 193
Mercers’ Company, Leigh Cup (1499) illustrated, 91
Mordaunt, Charles, Earl of Peterborough, 134
Morgan, Octavius, his pioneer work on marks, 38
Newcastle-on-Tyne, date letters employed at, 36, 37; illustrated, 397-399
Newcastle-on-Tyne silver plate illustrated-- Coffee-pot, 243 Spoon, 185
Nineteenth century, early, types of salt cellars, 157
Norwich silver plate illustrated-- Tall wine cup, 125
Pepys, Samuel, buries his silver plate at Bethnal Green, 127
Peterson, Peter, silversmith, Norwich, 123
Provincial offices ceased marking silver for five years, 29, 50
Porcelain teapots the prototypes of silver, 246, 249
“Portobello,” found on English silver coins, 334
Posset-pot, sixteenth-century Exeter College, Oxford, 203
Potter, the eighteenth-century, and the silversmith, 169, 249, 262, 294
Pottery, seventeenth-century example of posset-cup, 211
Prices-- Beakers, 137 Candlesticks, 229, 237 Casters, 297 Coffee-pots, 262 Cream-jugs, 308 Cups, standing, 137 Dish rings, 346 Elizabethan jug, 101 Goblets, 138 Irish silver, 346 Jug, stoneware, silver mounts, 101 Loving-cups, 137 Mazers, 89 “Monteith,” 138 Porringers, 219, 220 Posset-pots, 219 Potato-rings, 346 Punch-bowls, 138 Quaich, 320 Salt cellars, 145, 149, 159, 170, 175 Spoons, apostle, 187, 193; caddy, 194; seal-top, 194 Standing cups, 137 Sugar-bowls, 297 Tankards, 137 Tea-caddies, 261, 265 Tea-kettles, 265 Teapots, 265 Wine cups, 138
Puritans, destruction of objects of art by, 70
Revere, Paul, celebrated American silversmith, 48
Richards, Edmund, silversmith, Exeter, 216
Salt cellars, 139; classified list of types, 154, 157
Salt cellars-- Norwich Corporation, 149 Christ’s College, Cambridge, 158; illustrated, 143 Clothworkers’ Company, 146 Goldsmiths’ Company, 146 Ironmongers’ Company, 146 Innholders’ Company, 146 Mercers’ Company, 159; illustrated, 151, 155 Skinners’ Company, 146 Vintners’ Company, 146