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Some finds are listed in the Museum of Londons series on Medieval finds in London - the book you would look for is "Household objects".

The most common forms of hollow ware are of lead and brass - they appear in middle and even lower class inventories all the time. upper Middle and upper classes would add silver, silver-gilt, and gold vessels as well. These items usually did not have the bodies cast, but were formed with hammers over stkes - raised much like helmets, with some cast bits such as handles and the like, and the bodies invariably contain portions that were soldered together.

At one point I was investigating, and it may well be on F.S. where someone gave me a title of a book regarding Burgundian household goods, and this sort of thing in specific. I haven't had the money in hand to hunt it down yet, but I shall.

Steve Millingham
http://www.pewterreplicas.co.uk/

has a number of pieces of late Medieval hollow ware - I have a lidded flagon I am very happy with, that would be suitable as either a "good" (as in a piece to show off) vessel for a middle class table, or in my case, as my beer mug, with either a nicer piece of expensive glassware, or a silver beaker or chalice as a proper wine 'glass'.

These items have a social struicture and implication - while in the 14th century, pewter hollow ware, and stoneware graced upper middle class 'high' tables, by late century they had begun to 'filter down'. By the 16th century, even lower middle class households not only sported these items, tbut by mid 15th century they had been relegated to a lower service in the upper middle stratum. By the 18th century they were a commonplace in almost any household (stoneware by the 16th century).

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