About This Artwork

England or Netherlands

Coconut Cup with Scenes from the Life of David, 1577/78
Shell: 17th century replacement

Silver gilt and coconut shell
Height: 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Stanley Keith, 1951.72a-b

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, Renaissance Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, 3/2-6/14/1987, cat. 36

Los Angeles County Museum, Three Centuries of English Silver, 1950.

Publication History

Connoisseur (June 1937), p. 360 (ill.).

"Elizabethan Cocoanut Cup," Connoisseur (May 1938), p. 260 ; advertised in same issue by Peter Guille, p. 41.

Los Angeles County Museum, Bulletin (Fall 1950), no. 7, fig. 3.

Antiques 95, 6 (June 1969), p. 818, no. 6, ill.

Ownership History

Victor Rothschild [according to letter in curarotial file].