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Description: | The Newcastle Corporation provided this cup as a prize for one of the races run at the Newcastle Race Meeting in 1824. The Duke of Leeds' horse 'Mercutio' won the race. Although the cup is stamped with the maker's mark Thomas Watson, it is thought that sections of the cup were made by London silversmiths. This is because the same cast elements such as the vine border and the handles can be seen on other cups of the period. The finely cast castle-shaped finial on the lid of the cup was made by John Laws who had been apprenticed at the Beilby-Bewick workshop. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | metalwork living in the North East craft events art designers made in the North East makers sport date period | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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