Cup
Daniel Piers (fl.1746-1753)
Category
Silver
Date
1746 - 1747
Materials
Silver and gilt
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 936018
Summary
Silver cup with gilt interior, and cover made by Daniel Piers, 1746/47, part of a garniture of cups with DUN/S/476 and DUN/S/477. 'The bell shaped body of each is raised and has a calyx of applied cut-card work of six formalised rings rising from the base; the low feet are cast and have gadrooned rims. The scrolled handles are cast and have leafy terminals with alternating large and small descending beads. The moulded domed covers are raised and have applied ring sections, with gadrooned rims and locating flanges. Six cut card leaf forms are applied below the cast baluster lobed finials of each... [This] later cup has [George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington's] shield of arms, supporters, motto and coronet on the cup only' (Lomax and Rothwell, 'Country House Silver from Dunham Massey', 2006, pp.55).
Provenance
Previously on loan to the National Trust by the Rt Hon. Lord Deramore, and became the property of the National Trust after his death in 2006. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Dunham Massey, 2008.
Makers and roles
Daniel Piers (fl.1746-1753), silversmith