Pair of Goblets
c. 1770
Artists
Description
The egg-shaped bowls on spreading feet chased with a band of gadrooning, with bright-cut and wrigglework borders, the front with a shield-shaped cartouche enclosing a crest, surmounted by tied ribbons and with crossed laurel sprays below
Dimensions
16.2 x 8.9 cm (6 3/8 x 3 1/2 in.) unspecified: 396 g
Provenance
Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, Bequest to Fogg Museum, 1966.
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