A PAIR OF WELSH REGENCY SILVER-MOUNTED TREEN OAK CUPS

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A PAIR OF WELSH REGENCY SILVER-MOUNTED TREEN OAK CUPS
En suite with the preceding lot, the lip inscribed 'Ceubren Yr Ellyll â Syrthiodd î lawr yr 28 ain Ô Orphenaf 1813' above a coat-of-arms inscribed 'ASGRE LÂN DIOGEL EI PHERCHEN', the reverse with an engraved oak tree, the base inscribed, 'See Pennants Tour of Wales Vol 1 P. 348', each stamped twice with the silver mark of Thomas and James Phipps II, London, 1815
3½ in (9 cm.) diam.; 6¼ in. (16 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Supplied to Sir Robert Williames Vaughan M.P., The Nannau Estate, North Wales.
Thence by descent in the Vaughan Family.

Literature

Pennant's Tour of Wales, vol. I, p.348
R. Simpson, 'The Nannau Oak: Bulwer Lytton and his Midsummer Knight at the Westminster Round Table', Arthuriana, vol. VII, no. 3, Autumn 1997.
W. Scott, Marmion, 1808, mentioned as "the spirits blasted tree", Canto 6: 159.
T. R. 'Ceubren Yr Ellyll' The Cambro-Briton, London, September 1819 - August 1820, pp. 226-228.

Lot Essay

The first inscription is a motto attributed to Herbert Vaughan, it translates as, 'A pure conscience is a safeguard to its possessor' and the second inscription reads 'The Hollow Tree of the Spectre which fell down, July 28, 1813.'

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