Lot 283
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A VICTORIAN SILVER CUP AND COVER
A VICTORIAN SILVER CUP AND COVER

MAKER'S MARK OF WALTER ERNEST GILLINGHAM, LONDON, 1899

Details
A VICTORIAN SILVER CUP AND COVER
Maker's mark of Walter Ernest Gillingham, London, 1899
In the George II style, vase-form, on a spreading shaped circular base elaborately cast and chased overall with rocaille, monsters and foliage, the two open side double scroll handles terminating in dog-heads, the stepped domed cover similarly decorated with rocaille, flowers, and vacant cartouches, surmounted by a pointed foliate and fruit cluster finial, marked on rim and on cover
16in. (40.5cm.) high; 143oz. (4461gr.)

Lot Essay

This cup and cover is modelled after one made by Lewis Pantin, London, 1744/45. The Pantin cup and cover is illustrated in Rococo Art and Design in Hogarth's England, The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1984, cat. entry G22, p. 116. It is currently in the collection of the National Trust, Anglesey Abbey, England.