A GEORGE V SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER

MARK OF SEBASTIAN GARRARD, LONDON, 1912

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A GEORGE V SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER
MARK OF SEBASTIAN GARRARD, LONDON, 1912
In the manner of Paul de Lamerie, inverted bell shape and on spreading foot, the body chased with foliage and grotesque mask swags on a matted ground, with ribbon tied reeded mid-rib, leaf-capped scroll handles and the detachable cover similarly chased and with a leaf-cast baluster finial, later engraved with an inscription, marked near handle and on cover bezel, stamped underneath 'Garrard & Co. Ltd., Albermarle St. London W.'
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
100 oz. 12 dwt. (3,129 gr.)
The inscription reads 'The Hong Kong Marlboro Cup Annual Challenge Trophy'.

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Lot Essay

The present lot is a copy after Paul de Lamerie's cup and cover of 1739, described by P. A. S. Phillips as 'one of the most notable of de Lamerie's masterpieces, showing him at his apogee' (P. A. S. Philips, Paul de Lamerie: His Life and Work, London, 1935, p. 103). The Lamerie example is engraved with the arms of John Gawler Bridge of Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, who presented the cup to the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in 1839.

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