Two-handled Cup
1665-1670
Artists
Description
Of bulbous circular form, repousse and chased with a broad band of flowerheads and wrigglework with a running unicorn on one side and a running lion on the other, with two cast ribbed scroll handles headed by female masks, pricked under the rim on one side DS over DG and with traces of a scored-out date (1689) below.
Dimensions
12.4 x 18.4 x 15.2 cm (4 7/8 x 7 1/4 x 6 in.) 341 g
Provenance
Private Collector, London, sold [through Christie's, London, June 6, 1934, lot 130]. Edwin H. Abbot, Cambridge, MA, bequest; to Fogg Museum of Art, 1966.
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