The Commodore's Cup A silver racing trophy

MAKER'S MARK OF ELKINGTON AND CO., LONDON, 1906

细节

The Commodore's Cup

A silver racing trophy
maker's mark of Elkington and Co., London, 1906
Formed as the Warwick Vase, on square plinth and with spreading foot, the body cast and chased with a band of acanthus foliage and with a lion's pelt, bacchic masks and thrysus, applied beneath the egg-and-dart rim with a band of trailing vines, with two reeded handles, marked on body, on wood bases applied with four plaques variously engraved, all in oak travelling case with brass side handles
14½in. (36.5cm.) high
332ozs. (10,342grs.)

来源

Henry Cecil Sutton Esq. (1868-1936) and thence by descent

拍品专文

"Moonbeam" was one of that legendary group of thoroughbred boats - including "Westward" and "White Heather" - ordered after the end of the Great War had signalled the resurgence of competitive yacht racing. Designed as a composite cutter by the famous William Fife and built in his Fairlie yard early in 1920, she was registered at 93 tons gross (55½ net) and measured 79½ feet in length with a 16½ foot beam. With sails by Ratsey & Lapthorn, she was a splendid cruiser-racer and won the coveted King's Cup at Cowes in her maiden season in the high summer of 1920; this was the first of many prizes to fall to her during the inter-War years, not least the prestigious Royal Victoria Club's Commodore Cup in 1927 which she then retained after a second win in 1931

Henry Cecil Sutton (1868-1936), a keen yachtsman of the so-called "Golden Age" of British yachting (1919-1939), was the fourth son of Sir Richard Sutton Bt., himself a notable yachtsman of the Victorian era who unsuccessfully challenged for the elusive America's Cup in 1885 and was widely regarded as one of the greatest sportsmen of the age