A GEORGE V SILVER-MOUNTED STAINED FRUITWOOD MAZER BOWL

The present bowl is a copy of The Saffron Walden Mazer, 1507, maker’s mark a maidenhead which was sold The Trustees of the King Edward VI Almshouses, Saffron Walden, Essex; Christies, London, 3 March 1929, lot 91 to a dealer who sold it to J. P. Morgan by 1930; thence by descent to Henry S. Morgan who presented it to the Library in 1952. It was later sold The Trustees of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Christie’s, London, 23 June 1971, lot 121. The diarist Samuel Pepys records drinking from the mazer at the King Edward VI Almshouses, Saffron Walden in his diaries of 27 February 1659-60. The present copy was made in 1923 when the bowl was still in the possession of the Almshouses where it was first recorded by Pepys.