A RARE AND DOCUMENTED MEDIEVAL BRONZE CAULDRON

A RARE AND DOCUMENTED MEDIEVAL BRONZE CAULDRON

ATTRIBUTED TO THE WELSH BORDERS / SHROPSHIRE, 14TH / 15TH CENTURY

four gallon and two pint capacity, having an almost spherical body, with pronounced casting ridges and two pairs of wire mouldings (cords), the body passing upward into the everted rim with a gentle curve and the curved handles are both distinctive medieval features, the legs with pronounced central rib extending up the body

33.5cm high to rim, 30.1cm diameter, 32.7cm high, 29.8cm rim diameter

Literature

Illustrated in R.Butler & C. Green, 'English Bronze Cooking Vessels & Their Founders 1350-1830' p. 134, no.136, where it was originally noted as 17th century.