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KC1974-673
Communion cup, one of a pair
KC1974-673

Communion cup, one of a pair

Date1786 (dated)
OriginScotland
MediumPewter
DimensionsOH: 9 3/16"; Diam (rim): 5 5/16"; Diam (base): 4 15/16"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1973-242,1
Descriptioncommunion cup
Label TextDuring the middle decades of the eighteenth century, most Scottish pewter communion cups were of this commodious form with a particularly large bowl with a fillet mid-band supported on a stem of turned design with a central knop above a splayed circular foot.

Several elements from the eighteenth-century communion service of the church at Jedburgh, Scotland, are now in the Colonial Williamsburg collection. They include a pair of flagons, a pair of communion cups, and a pair of alms dishes. (See accessions 1973-243, 1-2; 1973-242, 1-2; and 1973-244, 1-2.) Two nineteenth-century pewter communion tokens from the church are in the collection as well (accessions 1974-180 and 1974-181).

Inscribed"THE ASSOCIATE CONGREGATION OF JEDBURGH 1786." engraved on face of each bowl.
MarkingsNone
ProvenanceVendor: Richard Mundey, London.