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Two-handled Cup
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Bulbous circular with two cast ribbed scroll handles headed by stylised heads and terminating in serpents, the sides repousse and chased with a broad band of flower heads and leaves, the center of each side with a circular cartouche headed by winged cherub heads, one engraved with a coat-of-arms, helm and crest within foliate scroll mantling, the other, circa 1740, with a coat-of-arms within a asymmetrical foliate cartouche headed by a crest, the base engraved W over LS
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Hill of Castle Morton Worcestershire c. 1663. Williamson New Hall Cumberland c. 1740. Private Collector London sold [through Christie's January 14 1987 lot 107]. Edwin Hale Abbot Jr. Cambridge MA bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1966.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Edwin H. Abbot
Title: Two-handled Cup
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Bulbous circular with two cast ribbed scroll handles headed by stylised heads and terminating in serpents, the sides repousse and chased with a broad band of flower heads and leaves, the center of each side with a circular cartouche headed by winged cherub heads, one engraved with a coat-of-arms, helm and crest within foliate scroll mantling, the other, circa 1740, with a coat-of-arms within a asymmetrical foliate cartouche headed by a crest, the base engraved W over LS.
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