Cup cover
Category
Silver
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Gold, Silver
Measurements
375 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 960087.2
Summary
A cover for a late 19th century continental parcel-gilt cup and cover with shaped stepped foot, with crenellated frieze of cherubs masks and chased border of saints in shield-shaped cartouches between tracery and foliate garlands, stem with cast applied figures of saints in niches between butresses, below an angular knop with applied cherubs masks, the cup of pineapple form lobes and foliate scrolls between, the outcurved rim engraved with angular trefoil border, the cover has a beaded rim, chased with a border of saints in shield shaped cartouches between foliate scrolls, a guilloche border above, the finial formed as an angel on a Gothic style column.
Marks and inscriptions
marked on rim of foot