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Covered Cup

Golden covered cup with two swirly designed handles decorated with engraved arms.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • Golden covered cup with two swirly designed handles decorated with engraved arms.

Date:

1757/58

Artist:

England, London
Richard Gurney and Thomas Cook (English, active 1727-1773)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Applied Arts of Europe

Artist

Richard Gurney

Title

Covered Cup

Place

London (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1757–1758

Medium

Gold

Inscriptions

Mark on cup and cover: lion passant, leopard's head crowned, date letter, Gothic B and maker's mark, T over RG over C Inscribed: "The Gift of the City of Bristol to Captain Lockhart of Ye Tartar, 1758"

Dimensions

21 × 17.5 × 10.1 cm (8 1/4 × 6 7/8 × 3 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Buckingham Fund

Reference Number

1957.455

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