Goblet
John Robins
Category
Silver
Date
1811 - 1812
Materials
Ostrich egg, silver-gilt, sterling
Measurements
19.3 x 12.8 cm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516435.2
Summary
A pair of ostrich egg goblets mounted in silver-gilt (sterling), mark of John Robins, London, 1811/2. Each ostrich egg has a raised silver-gilt liner and applied concave rim. The egg sits on a circular silver-gilt calyx on top of a narrow circular knop and undecorated raised trumpet-shaped stem, which is engraved with a crest beneath the motto: ‘FIRM’. The circular foot is embossed with a narrow gadrooned border over a concave step and applied narrow foot ring. Heraldry: The crest of a rock proper and motto are those of DALRYMPLE. .
Full description
For further details see master object entry.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, the Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
In the base of the goblet’s liner and on the exterior of the foot ring : Hallmarks: lion passant (sterling), monarch’s head (duty mark), ‘Q’ (1811/2), and ‘IR’ (John Robins*); (there is no leopard’s head) *Arthur Grimwade: London Goldsmiths 1697-1837, 1990, p 122, no 1623
Makers and roles
John Robins, goldsmith