Two-handled Cup and Cover
1667-1668
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
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