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Basin

c.1660-61

RCIN 100006

Probably originally supplied with a matching ewer, this basin is one of the few pieces of secular silver surviving from Charles II’s reign. Basins were traditionally used for the ritual of handwashing, as a conclusion to the ceremony of royal dining.

Cat. 32

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