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Mazer

1611
Not on view
The inscription reads "Quod wele ware hym yat wyste in whome yat he myght tryste" (How good it is for him who knows whom he can trust.) The arms at the bowl center are those of the Lee family of Ditchley and Quarendon who owned the mazer in the seventeenth century.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Mazer
  • Date: 1611
  • Culture: British
  • Medium: Maple wood, silver gilt
  • Dimensions: Overall: 6 × 6 1/2 in. (15.2 × 16.5 cm)
  • Classification: Metalwork-Silver In Combination
  • Credit Line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968
  • Object Number: 68.141.179
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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