Two-handled Cup

Artists

Description

Bulbous circular with two cast ribbed scroll handles headed by stylised heads and terminating in serpents, the sides repousse and chased with a broad band of flower heads and leaves, the center of each side with a circular cartouche headed by winged cherub heads, one engraved with a coat-of-arms, helm and crest within foliate scroll mantling, the other, circa 1740, with a coat-of-arms within a asymmetrical foliate cartouche headed by a crest, the base engraved W over LS

Dimensions

12.7 × 19 × 14.3 cm (5 × 7 1/2 × 5 5/8 in.) 364 g

Provenance

Hill of Castle Morton, Worcestershire, c. 1663. Williamson, New Hall, Cumberland, c. 1740. Private Collector, London, sold [through Christie's, January 14, 1987, lot 107]. Edwin Hale Abbot, Jr., Cambridge, MA, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1966.