Two-handled Cup and Cover

Artists

Description

Of bulbous circular form, the sides repoussé and chased with flowerheads and wrigglework with a running lion on one side and a unicorn on the other, with two cast caryatid-form scroll handles; the domed cover with conforming decoration and plain flat spool-form finial.

Dimensions

16.2 × 20.9 × 15.2 cm (6 3/8 × 8 1/4 × 6 in.) 697 g

Provenance

Private Collector, London, sold [through Christie's, London, July 13, 1914, lot 84]. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949