Two Handled Cup and Cover

Artists

Description

Twelve-sided, of bulbous form on broadly-spreading angular foot, with two cast caryatid and beaded acanthus scroll handles; the domed cover with flat rim, rising to gathered spire with double-baluster finial; the front engraved with a coat of arms within crossed plume mantling

Dimensions

20 x 20.64 x 13.97 cm (7 7/8 x 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.) 800 g

Provenance

George E. P. How, Edinburgh, Scotland. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.