A SILVER-GILT TROPHY CUP AND PLINTH

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A SILVER-GILT TROPHY CUP AND PLINTH
MAKER'S MARK OF THE GOLDSMITHS AND SILVERSMITH COMPANY, LONDON, 1911

Vase-shaped and on square plinth, cast and chased with a band of waterleaves and applied on the angles with goat's masks hung between with ribbon-tied floral garlands, the cup on square base and with spreading fluted foot, the body with two serpent and vine handles and cast and chased with a band of anthemion and laurel leaves, a band of anthemion, scrolls and acanthus leaves and between with a broad band of scrolling vines harvested by winged putti, the foot later engraved with presentation inscription, marked on body and plinth
22¼in. (54.5cm.) high
gross 336ozs. (1,045grs.)

Lot Essay

The inscription reads 'EL JOCKEY CLUB URUGUAYO AL GANADOOR DEL "PREMIO MONTEVIDEO" BUENOS AIRES 1917'

The celebrated antiquity from the Emperor Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, known as the Buckingham vase, was discovered in 1769 by Gavin Hamilton. From 1774 it was displayed in George Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham's hall at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire. The marble vase, together with silver-gilt 'Buckingham Vase' wine coolers featured in the celebrated Stowe sale of 1848, (lots 749 and 455-7). It provided the model for the Doncaster Races Cup, which is entered in the goldsmith's Messers Emes and Barnard's ledgers for 9 September 1828 (see Treasure Houses of Britain, exhibition catalogue, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985,no. 464)

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