page_title: Inventory of Elizabeth I of England
section_title: Silver, silver-gilt, and parcel-gilt plate
hierarchical_section_title: Inventory of Elizabeth I of England / Outline of the 1574 inventory / Silver, silver-gilt, and parcel-gilt plate
caption_attribution_description: English: Design for a Table Fountain with the Badge of Anne Boleyn. Pen and black ink over chalk on paper, 25.1 × 16.4 cm, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett.
context_page_description: The Inventory of Jewels and Plate of Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1574 was published from manuscripts by Arthur Jefferies Collins in 1955. The published inventory describes jewels and silver-plate belonging to Elizabeth I of England with detailed references to other source material.
context_section_description: Crosses
  Book-covers
  nos. 152 and 153 The covering of a Bible of silver and gilt fair wrought, and the covering of a Book of Common Prayer. These book covers were later weighed by the auditor Francis Gofton.
  A baptismal font
  no. 159 The silver-gilt font was decorated with pomegranates (the emblem of Catherine of Aragon), roses, and "antique" (renaissance style) decoration. It was made for Mary I of England in 1555.
  Church plate
  Mitres
  Cups and cups of assay
  no. 215 An "Antique" (renaissance style) gilt cup with a cover with a letter "D". Given in 1604 to Jean Grusset Richardot, President of the Privy Council of the Netherlands.
  no. 225 Two great gilt cups with German knights in armour on their covers with shields and halberds. These had belonged to the Duke of Northumberland. With other pieces, they were given to Alessandro Roveda, a Spanish representative at the Somerset House Conference on 22 August 1604.
  no 356 A cup called a "colloke" made of serpentine with a silver-gilt cover, given by Sir John Mason as a New Year's gift in 1562. The silver was sent to the mint to be made into coin in 1600.
  Bowls
  Bowls (gilt)
  Bowls (parcel-gilt and silver)
  Pots (gilt)
  Pots (parcel-gilt and silver)
  no. 539 Two gilt pots with rings around their bellies and angels and ciphers (initials) around their necks. Given to Juan Fernández de Velasco, 5th Duke of Frías, Constable of Castile, in August 1604 at the Somerset House Conference.
  Flagons and casting bottles (gilt)
  Flagons of glass or stone bound in velvet
  Spice plates
  Spice boxes
  Candlesticks and snuffers
  Spoons
  Goblets and glasses
  Jugs
  Tankards and Hanse pots
  Cruises (A type of tankard)
  Stoneware jugs
  Salt cellars
  no. 998 A basin of silver-gilt designed by Hans Holbein the younger for Anne Boleyn. Declared unserviceable and sold in 1620.
  Basins, fountains, ewers and gilt lairs (a lair was a kind of ewer)
  Basins and ewers (parcel-gilt and silver)
  Chafing dishes
  Trenchers
  Knives
  'Vessell' (gilt, parcel-gilt and silver)
  Kitchen plate
  no. 1305 An instrument of silver to roast puddings and apples. Melted down for coinage in October 1600.
  Orange strainers
  no. 1314 A strainer for oranges with a long steel writhen pole.
  no. 1320 A strainer for oranges of silver and gilt with two crystals in the handle, given by Sir George Howard, Master of the Armouries, in 1573.
  Perfume pans
  no. 1322 A perfume pan of silver and gilt with pillars of crystal part broken, and a clock plated with gold and enamelled. Melted down in October 1600.
caption: The table fountain designed by Holbein for Anne Boleyn was item no. 998 in the 1574 inventory
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