51/813

This is a large, ornate pewter dish for serving meat. It has two handles, four legs, a decorated rim and drainage channels to collect the juices into a hollow at one end. Nothing is known of its origins.

1 dish: pewter; good condition

No Lavinia Smith No. recorded., Heritage of the Hendreds Exhibition 1969 - 'Catalogue of Exhibits // Number 44 // Pewter Dish // Lent by Museum of English Rural Life' (The catalogue description could also refer to 51/656)

Rippon, Miss Dorothy May Lyddon (Agent)