Two-handled cup

Artists

Description

The pear-shaped body with two leaf-capped scroll handles, on domed spreading gadrooned foot; one side engraved with a contemporary coat-of-arms within a rococo asymmetrical foliate scroll cartouche and below it later engraved with the arms of Harvard University enclosed by the inscription.

Dimensions

18.4 × 24.8 × 12.1 cm (7 1/4 × 9 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.) 874 g

Provenance

Gift of Mrs. Francis R. Appleton in memory of her husband, Francis R. Appleton, 1951.