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Magdalen Cup

Unknown artist, 1573

An Elizabethan cup with cover. The cover has a slender baluster-finial, lobed disc-embossing, repeating design of fruit and foliage, engraved inside with a Tudor rose. Type of cup referred to in Tudor inventories as a Magdalin or Maudlyn Cup because they resemble the vessel containing ointment from 16th century paintings of Mary Magdalen.

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Title of artwork, date

Magdalen Cup, 1573

Date supported

1956

Medium and material

Silver gilt

Dimensions

20 cm

Grant

1050

Total cost

4305

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