Cup
William Burwash and Richard Sibley
Category
Silver
Date
1807 - 1808
Materials
Silver-gilt, sterling
Measurements
46.4 x 38.0 x 23.2 cm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516453.1
Summary
A two-handled, cup and cover, silver-gilt, sterling, marked for William Burwash & Richard Sibley I, London 1807/8 The urn-shaped cup, its foot and domed cover were raised. The top of the cup is applied with a wide band of cast and finely chased vines, leaves and grapes on a matted ground. Each side is applied with a laurel wreath cartouche. One contains a cast and chased vignette of two horses racing to a finishing post; the other is inscribed: Won at Beverley 1807 by Mrs F Watts' Integrity beating Lord C Somerset's White Rose and two others The deep calyx is embossed with a border of lanceolate leaves and flowers. It sits on an everted border of gadroons. The spreading foot is octagonal; at its waist is a narrow floral border. The rim of the foot is embossed and chased with a border of acanthus leaves above an undecorated foot ring. The two lyre-shaped handles are square in cross-section. They are decorated with a band of laurel leaves and berries between two guilloche borders. The cover has a wide border of embossed gadrooning round the rim. The central dome is embossed and chased with lanceolate leaves and flowers, echoing the calyx. The cast finial, in the form of a of a rearing horse, stands on a flat circular disk which screws to the cover. Heraldry: None Hallmarks: Fully marked on the foot ring: lion passant (sterling), leopard’s head (London), ‘M’ (date letter for 1807/8), monarch’s head (duty mark) and maker’s mark ‘WB’ over ‘RS’ for William Burwash & Richard Sibley*; part marked on the flange of the cover: lion passant, ‘M’ and ‘WB’ over ‘RS’; and marked on the upper side of the finial’s disk: monarch’s head and lion passant. (The screw is unmarked.) *Arthur Grimwade: London Goldsmiths 1697-1837, 1990, no 3050, p 217 Scratch weight: None
Provenance
Mrs F Watts Purchased from David Black of 1 Burlington Gardens, London W1, for £130 on 23 December 1943, Invoice 1650 Huttlestone Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) bequeathed by Lord Fairhaven to the National Trust along with the house and the rest of the contents The National Trust
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, the Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
William Burwash and Richard Sibley , goldsmith