Late Victorian Silver Gilt Presentation Cup and Cover
Late Victorian silver gilt presentation cup and cover, London dated 1899, mm Charles Stuart Harris. The body of the cup features cut-card acanthus leaf decoration with a repeating lyre border, acanthus leaf capped c-scroll handles on a spreading foot with foliate decoration. The cover and finial further decorated with acanthus leaf, with a classical urn finial, engraved to one side with crossed kukri's beneath a coronet and further engraved on the opposing side, raised on a circular black socle base, approx. 2300 gms, approx. 36 x 36 cms.
Provenance: Elizabeth, Lady Ashcombe, Sudeley Castle and Gardens.
Late Victorian silver gilt presentation cup and cover, London dated 1899, mm Charles Stuart Harris. The body of the cup features cut-card acanthus leaf decoration with a repeating lyre border, acanthus leaf capped c-scroll handles on a spreading foot with foliate decoration. The cover and finial further decorated with acanthus leaf, with a classical urn finial, engraved to one side with crossed kukri's beneath a coronet and further engraved on the opposing side, raised on a circular black socle base, approx. 2300 gms, approx. 36 x 36 cms.
Provenance: Elizabeth, Lady Ashcombe, Sudeley Castle and Gardens.
