The Wellby Collection

Sweetmeat bowl

Henrik Fortman

silver-gilt

1768

7 cm height

Inscription/Mark: two keys crowned; town mark for Leiden (struck beneath the base)
Inscription/Mark: date letter 'K' for 1768 (struck beneath the base)
Inscription/Mark: lion rampant for The Netherlands (struck beneath the base)
Maker's mark: 'HF' conjoined for Hendrik Fortman (struck beneath the base)

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Place of Creation: Leiden

WA2013.1.313

Sweetmeat bowl, on high foot, silver-gilt, with elaborately chased and pierced border. Applied on each side is a wing-like scroll.

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Bequeathed by Michael Wellby, 2012.