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Two Handled Cup and Cover
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Twelve-sided, of bulbous form on broadly-spreading angular foot, with two cast caryatid and beaded acanthus scroll handles; the domed cover with flat rim, rising to gathered spire with double-baluster finial; the front engraved with a coat of arms within crossed plume mantling
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
George E. P. How Edinburgh Scotland. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson New York; bequest to Fogg Art Museum 1949.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson Esq.
Title: Two Handled Cup and Cover
Description:
Twelve-sided, of bulbous form on broadly-spreading angular foot, with two cast caryatid and beaded acanthus scroll handles; the domed cover with flat rim, rising to gathered spire with double-baluster finial; the front engraved with a coat of arms within crossed plume mantling.
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