jan 1, 1536 - flat piece

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A shallow vessel, often of silver gilt and usually described as ‘covered’. 1490 <i>Dicto Johanni Copley optimam meam peciam stantem coop. et deaur. duas alias pecias arg. et deaur. vocatas flat-peces</i>, Batley (SS53/48). A list of items in the possession of the Abbot of Fountains at the Dissolution, places eight ‘standing pieces’ before four ‘flat pieces’ and a typical description is: <i>c</i>.1536 <i>j flatt pece with a covering giltid, weyng xl unces</i> (SS42/292). These followed several ewers and preceded a goblet.<i>

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