拍品 72
72
A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER

細節
A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER
maker's mark of William Grundy, London, 1774

Vase-shaped and on circular domed foot cast and applied with bands of beading and husks, the body with acathus foliage, beading and ribbon-tied drapery swags and with leaf-capped scroll handles, the spool-shaped cover similarly chased with foliage and with detachable spirally fluted finial, marked on body and cover, the finial unmarked, 17in. (43cm.) high
109ozs. (3,402grs.)

拍品專文

The design of this cup derives from the the Richmond Race cups, made by Daniel Smith and Robert Sharp between 1764 and 1770, after designs by the celebrated architect Robert Adam, executed about 1763, now in the Sir John Soane's Museum