AN EARLY 16TH CENTURY BRONZE CAULDRON

AN EARLY 16TH CENTURY BRONZE CAULDRON

PROBABLY SOUTH EAST ENGLAND, C.1500

having an everted rim, the body with two neatly drawn scratch marks, a saltire cross and 'N'-shape, with triangular lug handles and wrought iron swing handle, on three stout short legs with pronounced central rib

25cm high, 28.6cm diameter

Literature

See R. Butler & C. Green, 'English Bronze Cooking Vessels & Their Founders 1350-1830' p. 142, nos. 145-7 for three vessels with a similar saltire cross foundry mark.