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"The Stoughton Cup"
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Straight sides with moulded rim and vertical gadrooning on surbase; moulded splayed foot with band of reeding. Two cast scroll handles with graduated beading, caryatid grips, and snakes' heads at tips. Domed cover with two bands of reeding and melon-shaped finial with gadrooning at joining.
Department of American Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Gift of the Honorable William Stoughton 1701 on behalf of Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton (1631-1701) of Massachusetts who died a week after the ceremony.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Loan from Harvard University; Gift to Harvard College from the Honorable William Stoughton 1701
Title: "The Stoughton Cup"
Description:
Straight sides with moulded rim and vertical gadrooning on surbase; moulded splayed foot with band of reeding.
Two cast scroll handles with graduated beading, caryatid grips, and snakes' heads at tips.
Domed cover with two bands of reeding and melon-shaped finial with gadrooning at joining.