THE COWES CUP 1859 A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER

MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1859

Details

THE COWES CUP 1859
A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER
MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1859
The ovoid body supported on spreading foot, the stem cast as three female figures at rest, the sides cast and chased one one side with a scene of Christopher Colombus landing in the New World and on the other which him being greeted by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella on his return, the two scroll handles each capped with a cast female figure, the detachable cover with finial cast as further female resting on celestial globe, marked near rim and inside cover, the base further stamped 'Hunt and Roskell Late Storr and Mortimer' and numberd '9727', with an ebonised plinth, three sides applied with silver-gilt plaques, one engraved with the Royal arms, the other two engraved with inscriptions
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high including plinth
78 oz. (2,418 gr.)
The inscriptions read 'The Gift of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria Cowes Regatta 1859' and
'Won by Colonel Simmons Smith's Cutter "Brunette" Beating the Cutters Marina Osprey Cymba Lady Bird After the Most Exciting and Interesting Match Ever Witnessed at Cowes'

Provenance

Won by Colonel Joshua Simmons Smith's cutter 'Brunette' at the Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta, Cowes on 4 August 1859.

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Lot Essay

Joshua Simmons Smith (d.1877) served in the 15th Light Dragoons and later the 5th Northumberland Fusileers. He entered the army in 1817 rising to the rank of lieutenant general by 1870. A keen sailor his obituary was published in The Times on 30 September 1879, where his death at his house on Albemarle Street is recorded.

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