Covered Cup
date: label: date made
content: 1755
label: date inscribed and presented
content: 1813
name: label: previous owner
content: Pell, Alfred Duane
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled covered cup on a stepped circular foot; engraved on opposite sides with an armorial device of a baron (coronet of four pearls) featuring a tower crest and motto "AVANCEZ" and a lengthy inscription detailing its presentation by the Corporation of the City of London to Lieut.-General Sir Rowland Hill for "the Skill, Bravery, and Exertions so eminently displayed" in the Battle of Vitoria on June 21, 1813. Applied decoration on raised body includes a reeded midband and alternating castings of female busts and anthemions on pedestals around its rounded bottom. Stepped bell-shaped cover has similar applied ornament and an urn finial soldered in place. Hollow, double C-scroll handles have a scrolled acanthus leaf on top and a split scroll lower terminal with incurved oval strut. Cover is stamped on collar exterior with "F•W" in a curvilinear surround. Underside of rounded bottom struck with four marks around centerpoint, the same "F•W" mark along with a lion passant, crowned leopard's head, and raised serif "u", all in curvilinear surrounds.
label: Description
content: Maker is Fuller White of London, England; active 1734-1773. White is perhaps best known as the silversmith who made the Norfolk Mace, presented by Lt. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie to the City of Norfolk on April 1, 1754; it remains in Norfolk's possession to this day.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.0341
label: catalog number
content: 60.0341
label: accession number
content: 225282
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cup
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 5/8 in x 10 5/8 in x 6 5/8 in; 32.0675 cm x 26.9875 cm x 16.8275 cm