George V sterling silver and maple wood Mazer bowl, London
A George V sterling silver and maple wood Mazer bowl maker's mark Omar Ramsden, London 1930, the shallow circular body carved with three flutes, rising to an applied sterling silver lip hung with a band and leaf pendant border, raised on a reeded flaring circular foot
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- George V - George V (1865 – 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 1910 until his death in 1936.
- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
- Maple - Maple, native to North America, is a dense heavy timber from light to yellow-brown in colour. It has very little distincive graining unless it is one of the variants such as birds-eye maple or burr maple, so was not used extensively for furniture in 18th and 19th century, where cabinetmakers and designers preferred timbers with more distinctive features such as mahogany, walnut, rosewood and oak.
Birds-eye maple has a seres of small spots linked by undulating lines in the grain, is highly sough and is used as a decorative veneer. Burr maple has larger and irregular grain swirls than birds-eye maple.
This item has been included into following indexes:
- bowls and dishes, silver
- mazer bowl - silver items 2
- Ramsden, Omar (England) - silversmith 16
