An Elizabethan Silver Flagon
William Cobbold
- Art Funded
- 1980
- Dimensions
- 27 cm
- Vendor
- Private collection
Stamped with Cobbold's marks, an orb and a cross, and the Norwich city arms, a castle and a lion.
The boss of the cover is engraved with the coat of arms of the Bell family of Suffolk and the initials W P, probably those of a husband and wife.
Provenance
Viscount Rothermere, sold through Christie's, 1941; private collection.