The Galloway Mazer by James Gray

The Galloway Mazer by James Gray, 1569

© National Museum of Scotland

Details

Medium:

Maplewood & silver

Dimensions:

21 x 21 cm

Art Fund grant:

£1,100 ( Total: £11,550)

Acquired in:

1954

Vendor:

Earls of Galloway

The maplewood bowl rests on a collar over a baluster stem chased with acanthus fronds on tooled ground and a compressed knop. The circular foot is repousse with a band of cupids among foliage.

Provenance

Archibald Stewart, Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Stewart's great-niece married the brother of the Ist Earl of Galloway and the mazer passed into that family where it remained until 1954; Sotheby's 1954.