QUEEN VICTORIA'S GOLDEN JUBILEE: A MONUMENTAL VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT PRESENTATION CUP AND COVER

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06.04.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 929112
Lot 18 | QUEEN VICTORIA'S GOLDEN JUBILEE: A MONUMENTAL VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT PRESENTATION CUP AND COVER
The stepped circular base with cast guilloche border below applied cut-card band of Vitruvian scrolls, further applied The Coronation Cup 1897 in leafy script, the top of the base mounted with seated figures of Britannia with a lion, Scotland and Wales, centered by a Romanesque column stem supporting the vase form cup, applied on both sides with boldly cast Royal arms, emblems of the British Isles, and profile medallions of Queen Victoria depicting likeness at the time of the Coronation and the Jubilee, the scroll handles with pendant grape bunches and capped by overlapping acanthus leaves, stepped domed cover with fully modeled finial of St. George slaying the dragon as a sheep flees through St. George's legs, marked throughout, flange of cover engraved ORTNER & HOULE LONDON
411/2 in. (105.4 cm.) high
612 oz. 2 dwt. (19,036 gr.)
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