ppfuf: (arms)
ppfuf ([personal profile] ppfuf) wrote2014-07-07 02:48 pm
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry
Entry tags:

a new roundel in the Cuming Museum, London

The curator at the St Alban’s museum just alerted me to a single roundel (banqueting trencher) at the Cuming Museum in London. It is one of the Persian-edges, center-motif and posy trenchers, similar to the Set of Tudor Roundels at St. Albans, or another single survivor at the Norfolk museum. This particular trencher is interesting as the 4-line secular posy matches a posy in the Fizwilliam collection. I had previously thought the set at the Fitzwilliam were unique posies, but apparently not.
The posy is hard to read, but the website was updated on 9July2014 with this intrepretation:
I knowe full well ye bent of ye bowe
Ther is wth ye but a woorde & a blowe
Well att ease shell ye neighbore be
That dwels not next betwixt ye ichurche and the
I’m hoping the Cuming museum has a complete set, at the moment it’s hard to tell from their website.

Edited to add: this trencher is now on exhibit at the Southwark Heritage Centre and Walworth Library. 
Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[identity profile] klwilliams.livejournal.com 2014-07-08 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
You really need to write up your research on trenchers and get it published.

[identity profile] ppfuf.livejournal.com 2014-07-08 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I should...but it's really pointless without pictures and most museums want a meeeeellllion dollars to use them. I should put up a website somewhere, at least.

...and Trencher donated by Lovett, C01865

[identity profile] ppfuf.livejournal.com 2014-09-04 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Looking again at the Southwark website I found a clipping from a 22March1929 newspaper describing an exhibit "... 'Fun at Table', 22/3/29, about mediaeval wooden tableware on display at the Cuming Museum - related to Mazer C01861, Livery Company beechwood cup C01868, and Trencher donated by Lovett, C01865; 'April Fool Jug', 1/4/1929, about Doulton puzzle jug C13067; ..."
This may (or may not) confirm there's only one trencher in their collection. See also Edward Lovett (1852 - 1933) early collector of toys and amateur folklorist. I don't think I've seen him mentioned in connection with any other collection.

http://www.southwarkcollections.org.uk/code/emuseum.asp?style=browse¤trecord=1&page=search&profile=objects&searchdesc=C01865&quicksearch=C01865&sessionid=BEA97D30-62D8-4723-8FB4-C751A962A5D4&action=quicksearch&style=single¤trecord=1
Flat | Top-Level Comments Only