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Description: | Cup of inverted bell shape and loop handle with scrolling leaf terminal on a deep saucer. All the rims are lined in gold and below this is a band of gold ribbon swags on a green ground, and then a moulded bead band picked out in gold, which adjoins a wide band of vertical moulded ribbing. A gold flower is painted in the centre of the saucer. The cup is decorated with a sepia monochrome bust of a Roman or Greek soldier on a lilac ground with an oval gold imbricated band. The stem is decorated with a band of moulded gold beads, painted gold on a green ground. The foot is decorated with gold panted ribs, moulded graduating beads, painted gold are on the spine of the handle.
Purchased of the assistance of V&A Purchase Grant Fund.
Size: Cup - Height: t cm; Saucer - Diameter: 14.1 cm. | License: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/terms/ | Rights holder: | The Bowes Museum | Subjects: | 1613 | Source: | Bowes-OAI | Identifier: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/collect... | Go to resource |
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