Thistle cup
Hugh Ross I
- Art Funded
- 2004
- Dimensions
- Height 4.5 cm; diameter 4.4 cm
- Vendor
- Lyon & Turnbull
A silver cup with applied fluting below a ribbed girdle, a plain foot and ribbed S-shaped handle.
The initials AS and MF are engraved above the girdle. The maker's mark of HR is struck on the base. This is a rare and significant early example of Tain silver and only three cups by this maker are known.
Provenance
Phillips 1999; private collection; Lyon and Turnbull 2003.