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WARHAM BOWL.
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I believed the mount to be foreign, and found no hall-mark
visible ; but, with Mr. Trenchard's permission, I took off the
or movable rivets, and found
mount, by removing sundry pins
London hall-marks inside, of a date
the metal bearing quite
later than visit to Weymouth. The
forty years King Phillip's
mounts were therefore added by some one of the Trenchard
to do honour to a
family royal gift.
" of Bloxworth House, Dorset, is, I have
Colonel Cambridge,
reason to believe, the owner of these bowls, he
every present
a of Mr. Trenchard, of Greenhill House, where
being nephew
I saw them."
Pickard died in October,
Colonel Jocelyn Cambridge
1900, and the bowls are now the property of his only child,
Mrs. Frederick Lane, who has most kindly supplied the here-
with illustration.
WARHAM BOWL.
THE writer would beg to express his thanks to Dr. Sewell,
Warden of New College, Oxford, for so kindly supplying the
herewith illustration (No. 488) of this very interesting little
"
bowl. That gentleman writes : The size is small, about
5 inches in diameter at the top and about 3 inches at the
bottom, and about the same in depth. The value attached to
it is shown in the silver-gilt setting." The bowl itself is
celadon in both senses of the word (see p. 138), and, as stated
on p. xix., was presented to New College by Archbishop
Warham between the years 1504 and 1532 ; so whether this
or the Trenchard bowls are the oldest is a matter of opinion
one of no In the of
and, fortunately, consequence. early part
the sixteenth these bowls were rare and much
century very
prized ; in fact, if we are to judge by the name celadon, it was
not until the next that became
century they generally known,
for it was in 1612 that Honore d'Urfe out his
brought great
"
pastoral romance, L'Astree," and for a long time thereafter no
novel or play in France was complete without its love-sick
shepherd. These interesting individuals, as represented on
the were dressed in which shades
stage, blue-green greys
of colour were called celadon, after the hero of the above-
named well-known work. no clue as to
This, of course, gives
when celadon ware was first introduced into France, but it