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Standing cup
Marked by: Richard Green (English, active 1703–1753)
English (London)
1703–04
Medium/Technique
Silver gilt
Dimensions
Overall: 25.8cm (10 3/16in.)
Other (diam of rim): 12.3 cm (4 13/16 in.)
Other (diam of rim): 12.3 cm (4 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2283
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSilver
DescriptionBucket shaped bowl over ballister form stem on spreading round foot on bowl. an oval engraved portrait of Queen Anne, on reversed side engraved the Royal Coat of Arms.
Marks
Just below the rim, maker's mark GR in a shaped shield (Grimwade 876); Britannia; lion's head erased; date letter h (1703/4).
InscriptionsARMORIALS: engraved on one side of the cup are the Royal Arms for Queen Anne, on the other, a copy of her coronation portrait.
Provenance1939, William Randolph Hearst (b. 1863 - d. 1951), New York; January 5-7, 1939, Hearst sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 300, to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)