Two-handled Cup

Artists

Description

Of circular straight-sided form on a plain flaring foot, chased with matted circles within plain borders with punched sprays between and below a punched border, with two cast foliate scroll handles; the interior punched with a starburst pattern; pounced C over SH within sinuous scrolls in one of the granulated circles; with later (probably nineteenth century) gilding.

Dimensions

7 x 14.9 x 11 cm (2 3/4 x 5 7/8 x 4 5/16 in.) 204.6 g

Provenance

[Anonymous Sale, Christie's, London, January 23, 1929, lot 8]; to Eben F. Comyns. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.