Museum
Pewter plate
Description
A fifteenth-century pewter plate; broad-rimmed with bossed well, marked on upper surface of rim: (in a shield) a swan swallowing a fish (?) with the letter `R' placed on the right of the bird; also on the upper surface of the rim: a reversed `R' and a `P'; incised line around central boss; heavily pattinated with `nature's gilding'. Originally found on the Thames foreshore.
