Letter from W J Möens
Reference code
SAL/01/02/73/03
Title
Letter from W J Möens
Date
1890
Level of description
item
Scope and content
Requesting the return of 4 beakers when the Society has finished with them. Four silver beakers were gifted to the Dutch Church in Norwich by a local merchant names Richard Browne.
They were exhibited at the meeting on 27th March 1890: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.046.093
The four beakers are now on display in 3 museums.
Two are at the Ashmolean: https://www.ashmolean.org/collections-online#/item/ash-object-738160
(One of these is on loan to the V&A at the time of writing: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O115799/beaker-cobbold-william/)
One is at the Norwich Castle Museum: https://www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/collections-object-page?id=NWHCM%20:%201926.110
And the final one is at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20032654
They were exhibited at the meeting on 27th March 1890: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.046.093
The four beakers are now on display in 3 museums.
Two are at the Ashmolean: https://www.ashmolean.org/collections-online#/item/ash-object-738160
(One of these is on loan to the V&A at the time of writing: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O115799/beaker-cobbold-william/)
One is at the Norwich Castle Museum: https://www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/collections-object-page?id=NWHCM%20:%201926.110
And the final one is at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20032654
Creator
Möens, William John Charles (1833-1904), antiquary