File:Post Medieval silver ewer (FindID 569903).jpg

English: A large silver ewer. The ewer is on a simple, sparsely ornamented form. It comprises a hollow turned pedestal base with a stepped outer rim, a large gently flaring cup, a curved, open topped spout and a curved handle with a knobbed thumb piece. The base has a simple turned bead set in slightly from the outer edge and a raised right angled ridge at the base of the step up. It then tapers in to a conical pedestal attached to the base of the cup. This also has a turned step. The cup is undecorated apart from the hallmarks and has a slightly out-turned plain lip. The spout runs the full height of the cup an projects above the lip. It is a flaring D sectioned tube along the body before expanding into a hooked open spout with a curved lip. There are two apertures behind the spout in the wall of the cup. These are both trapezoidal with fretted upper an lower edges. The handle is attached opposite the spout. It is hollow and of composite construction. The handle is D-sectioned with the flat face uppermost. It arches up from the lip and then curves down and in to join o the body a liitle above the base of the cup. It then curves back out into a flared, rounded ended scroll terminal. There is a group of four hallmarks towards the rim of the ewer. They are as follows:

PB in a shield with two crescents (maker's mark), Leopard's head, Lion passant, italic letter S in a pointed shield (date letter - 1635-36).

A similar maker's mark is recorded for marks of the years immediately prior to the year mark for this vessel (1634-5) in Jackson, C.J. 1905. English Goldsmiths And Their Marks: A history of the Goldsmiths and Plate Workers of England , Scotland and Ireland. London, p 82

Date: Post-Medieval - 1635 - 1636

Dimensions: 293 mm x 272 mm x 144 mm Diameter of cup - 138 mm

Weight: 1050g

A vessel of very similar form dated to 1635 is illustrated as a line drawing in Taylor, G 1956 Silver, Pelican Books, Middlesex, and is described as "unrelieved by ornament" and resembling an Elizabethan communion cup "with scrolled handle, on the top of which is a small button thumb-piece; the spout springs from near the base an ends in a hooked lip.."