Object type
Metalwork
Date
Production: 1685
Modified: 1828
Silversmith
Richard William Atkins & William Nathaniel Somersall
Subject(s)
Ceremony
Religion and Devotion
Inscriptions

obverse: St John Clerkenwell


obverse: This / staff and silver / head was made / At ye charge of / ye inhabitants of / ye east liberty of / St John of Jerusalem


reverse: William Jackson / George Godson / Churchwardens


reverse: Anno dom 1685 / Anno V Regni Regis / [?] / Jacobi Ang Primo

Dimensions
Height x width x depth: 94 x 94 x 373mm
Materials and technique
Silver
Production place
England
Related place(s)
Priory Church
Clerkenwell
London
Themes
St John the Baptist in the Museum’s collections
References
Findlater, Julia, and Pamela Willis. Silver at St John's Gate: Maltese and other Silver in the Collection of the Museum of the Order of St John. Museum of the Order of St John, 1990.
Pages 27 - 28
Catalogue number 113
Catalogue number
542
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