Two-handled Cup

Artists

Description

Bulbous circular on ropetwist foot, with two cast caryatid scroll handles, the sides chased with stylised flowers within matted scrolls under a punched band, the rim with faint traces of pricked initials, the base engraved, probably in the twentieth century, with the initials AJB

Dimensions

7.3 x 15.9 x 10.2 cm (2 7/8 x 6 1/4 x 4 in.) 220 g

Provenance

Viscount Rothermere, London, sold [through The Rothermere Collection Sale, Christie's, London, December 3, 1941, lot 99]. Edwin H. Abbot, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1966.