Font-Shaped Silver Gilt Cup
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 1958
- Dimensions
- 10 x 9 cm
- Art Fund grant
- £1,000 (Total: £9,500; Export stopped)
- Vendor
- S J Phillips
A Tudor standing cup.
Cup has a shallow bowl bearing an inscription in Lombardic letters on hatched ground. Referred to as 'font-shaped' cups because of the near-vertical sides. Maker's mark is a scallop.
Provenance
H. Durlacher; J. Dunn-Gardner; J.A. Holms; L.H. Wilson.
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