AN ELIZABETH I SILVER-GILT MOUNTED COCONUT-CUP
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AN ELIZABETH I SILVER-GILT MOUNTED COCONUT-CUP

MARK OF PETER QUICK, BARNSTAPLE, CIRCA 1600

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AN ELIZABETH I SILVER-GILT MOUNTED COCONUT-CUP
MARK OF PETER QUICK, BARNSTAPLE, CIRCA 1600
The coconut carved on three sides, with a lion rampant among acorns and oak leaves, Venus and Cupid and a seated nude figure, the figures within foliage scrolls, further carved with initials 'RR' and 'PR, the rim-mount engraved with strapwork and initials 'RR' over 'F', on spreading foot with vase shaped stem with scrolls, marked underneath with maker's mark and bird town mark
7 ¼ in. (18.5 cm) high
來源
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 30 April 1996, lot 106.
注意事項
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拍品專文

Peter Quick is recorded as having gained the freedom of Exeter in 1563/4 and by 1573 was in trading on Crock Street and later 'uppon [sic] the Kaye [sic] of Barnstaple...' (T. Kent, Barnstaple Silver and Its Makers, Windsor, 1995, p. 10). Another silver-mounted coconut-cup with remarkably similar engraving to the present cup is illustrated by Kent (op cit., p. 11, fig. 26 and frontispiece).

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