Cup
1915-1916 (made)
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| Place of origin |
An entry for this cup dated July 1915 appears in John Paul Cooper's stock book of that year. On the opposite page is a small pen sketch. The cup cost £7 11s to manufacture, but the retail price is not revealed. Cooper, along with Henry Wilson, Edward Spencer and George Hart, was a leading artist craftsman who worked in the tradition of William Morris. Both Cooper and Wilson trained as architects. Cooper was a versatile designer who specialised in combining unusual materials, especially shagreen, with silver.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Silver mount; coconut and mother-of-pearl in two colours |
| Brief description | Silver, coconut and mother-of-pearl, London hallmarks for 1915-16, mark of John Paul Cooper |
| Physical description | Coconut cup, silver rim and with a foot and stem of silver, decorated with mother of pearl in two different colours. The cylindrical stem with projecting collets of brown mother of pearl supports the cup with a serrated collar set with blue mother of pearl. The foot also set with brown mother of pearl, has four lobes and four knops. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | J P Cooper and Assistants, designed by John Paul Cooper, mark registered 21 October 1912. London hallmarks for 1915-16 |
| Credit line | Formerly in the collection of Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read. |
| Object history | JP Cooper's stock book for 1915 contains an entry for this cup dated July 1915 with a small pen sketch on the opposite page. It cost £7 11s to manufacture. The retail price is not revealed. John Paul Cooper along with Henry Wilson, Edward Spencer and George Hart was a leading artist craftsman who worked under the influence of the Morris tradition. Cooper, who like Wilson had trained as an architect, was a versatile designer who specialised in combining exotic materials, especially shagreen, with silver. |
| Summary | An entry for this cup dated July 1915 appears in John Paul Cooper's stock book of that year. On the opposite page is a small pen sketch. The cup cost £7 11s to manufacture, but the retail price is not revealed. Cooper, along with Henry Wilson, Edward Spencer and George Hart, was a leading artist craftsman who worked in the tradition of William Morris. Both Cooper and Wilson trained as architects. Cooper was a versatile designer who specialised in combining unusual materials, especially shagreen, with silver. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jervis, Simon, Victorian and Edwardian decorative art: the Handley-Read collection, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1972 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.33-1972 |
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| Record created | March 3, 2004 |
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