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Description: | Cup and cover presented to Captain Lawrence Irvine, 1758.
The cup has a pear-shaped body and scroll handles decorated with acanthus leaves, and stands on a circular foot. The domed lid has a fluted finial and a gadrooned edge.
Engraved within a cartouche on the body, surrounded by scrolls, foliage and a mask: 'To CAPT. LAWRENCE IRVINE, this Cup is presented by the Underwriters, in gratefull [sic] Commemoration of his bravely Beating off a large French Privateer wch boarded his ship the Lyon in Auracabessa Harbour in Jamaica on April 12th 1758'.
caption: Cup and cover | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Lyon fl.1758 cups (drinking vessels) Captain Lawrence Irvine | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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