By the Rev. E. II. Goddard. 



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Of unusual eighteenth century pieces Hullavington possesses a 

 fine two-handled cup of large size, of domestic fashion, dated 1738; 

 and Colerne has a two-handled caudle cup with cover, elaborately 

 ornamented with a removable outer case of pierced scroll and flower 

 work — given in 1774, 



Having thus roughly traced the evolution of the chalice, a few 

 words must be said as to the paten. This, as has already been 

 stated, was in Elizabethan days simply a cover fitting closely to the 

 cup. In the Jacobean type the paten still fitted the top of 

 the chalice, but its rim grew wider, it became shallower and 

 less domed, and the edge which fitted over the rim of the chalice 

 disappeared. By degrees the paten grew larger, though still in 

 many cases fitting the chalice as a cover (see Fig. 9) ; but with the 

 new standard of silver in Queen Anne's days came in a new fashion. 

 The paten had grown into a salver standing perhaps 3in. high on a 

 hollow circular foot, the top measuring 9in. or more across, and 

 ornamented round the edge and also round the base with the 

 characteristic pattern of the period — the fluting known as the 

 gadroon. These patens are almost all of new standard silver, that 

 is between the dates of 1696 and 1720, and bearing, therefore^ 

 the hall marks of the lion's head erased and the figure of Britannia, 

 instead of the lion passant and leopard's head crowned ; and more 

 often than not they bear the donor's arms elaborately engraved in 

 the centre. 



Throughout the eighteenth century they continue as high, but 

 not quite so large, and they commonly lose the gadrooned edge, and 

 bear the sacred monogram in the centre. Frequently towards the 

 end of the century domestic salvers or trays, with scollopped edges 

 and standing on three claw feet are found, used either as 

 patens or alms dishes. These latter, however, are commonly in the 

 eighteenth century plain dishes with depressed centres — a pair, of 

 precisely similar make, often serving, like the salvers, one for a 

 paten, the other for alms dish. 



At Colerne is a paten of large size, and with gadrooned edge and 

 base and an elaborate chased foliage ornamentation attached to 

 its face, with a silver-gilt medallion in the centre of nymphs stealing 

 vol. xxv. — no. lxxv. $ B 



