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Cup

1690-1695 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
London (made)

Silver-gilt two-handled, lidded cup on a stand. The area of the lid around the knop, the area around the base of the bowl and the area around the foot on the underside of the stand are decorated with applied stylised leaf cut-card work. The cup, cover and stand are also finely engraved with floral scrolls. The engraving of the cup terminates in zoomorphic heads and flowers, while the engraving on the stand depicts a hunting scene in which a stag and five hounds appear to emerge from the flowering scrolls. The lid and stand are edged with applied gadrooned ornament; the applied handles are scroll-shaped and cast in the form of a two-headed serpent. The foot of the cup and stand is pierced and open. The knop or finial is in the form of a rosebud. The inside of the cup has been regilded.


Object details

Categories
Images Online
SCRAN
Object type
Cup
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Two-Handled Cup
  • Lid
  • Stand
Materials and techniques
Silver gilt
Silver-Gilt
Engraving (Incising)
Cut-Card Decoration
Brief description
Silver-gilt, English (London), unidentified maker's mark *I C* below a crown, a crescent below, in a punch which follows the shape of the crown, the monogram and the crescent; 1690-95.
Physical description
Silver-gilt two-handled, lidded cup on a stand. The area of the lid around the knop, the area around the base of the bowl and the area around the foot on the underside of the stand are decorated with applied stylised leaf cut-card work. The cup, cover and stand are also finely engraved with floral scrolls. The engraving of the cup terminates in zoomorphic heads and flowers, while the engraving on the stand depicts a hunting scene in which a stag and five hounds appear to emerge from the flowering scrolls. The lid and stand are edged with applied gadrooned ornament; the applied handles are scroll-shaped and cast in the form of a two-headed serpent. The foot of the cup and stand is pierced and open. The knop or finial is in the form of a rosebud. The inside of the cup has been regilded.
Dimensions
  • Total weight weight: 475.5g
  • Total height height: 13cm
  • Maximum width width: 14cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Maker's mark *I C* (i.e. initials between two mullets) below a crown, a crescent below, in a punch which follows the shape of the crown, the initials and the crescent. (The mark is stamped in the centre of the underside of the stand, and in the centre of the underside of the cup. There are no marks on the lid, or on the applied handles or foot of the cup and the stand. The mark is unrecorded in Jackson (1989) and in Grimwade (1990).)
  • 5' 6 (Engraved on the underside of the stand, the numbers refer to the weight of the piece.)
Object history
This cup and stand come from a set of six that were formerly owned by Mrs David Bowes-Lyon.
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Pickford, Ian, ed. Jackson's silver & gold marks of England, Scotland & Ireland. [A third revised and enlarged edition of Sir Charles Jackson, English Goldsmiths and their Marks.] Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1989. ISBN: 0907462634.
  • Grimwade, Arthur G. London goldsmiths 1697-1837: their marks and lives, from the original registers at Goldsmiths' Hall and other sources. 3rd edn, revised and enlarged. London: Faber, 1990.
  • Jamieson, Ross W. The Essence of Commodification: Caffeine Dependencies in the Early Modern World. Journal of Social History, 35.2 (Winter, 2001), pp. 269-294.
  • Schroder, Timothy. British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean Museum. 3 vols. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009. ISBN 9781854442208
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
M.7:1 to 3-1992

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Record createdNovember 4, 2002
Record URL
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