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Trophy Cup and Cover
The collection record classifies this work as silver. It is dated 1792–1793. Recorded culture or place: England, 18th century.
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- Museum title
- Trophy Cup and Cover
- Date
- 1792–1793
- Culture / origin
- England, 18th century
- Materials and technique
- silver gilt
- Dimensions
- Overall: 59.7 x 40 cm (23 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Peter Bateman (British, 1740–1825); Anne Bateman (British, 1748–1813)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1968.30
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Silver fulfilled a prominent role in projecting wealth, status, power, and ritual in British life during the 1600s and 1700s. Elaborate forms such as this trophy, with its swags of flowers, neoclassical rosettes, acanthus spears, and acorn finial, not only represented wealth in its sheer silver weight but also provided royal and aristocratic owners a surface for displaying engraved coats of arms. Engraved on one side of this trophy cup can be found the arms of Robert Grosvenor (1767–1845), the first Marquess of Westminster, and Lady Eleanor Egerton (1770–1846), whom he married in 1794, a year after the trophy’s completion. The other side depicts preparations for a horserace, the most culturally significant leisure activity enjoyed by aristocratic families in the 1700s. Grosvenor owned a number of famous horses and was likely awarded this trophy following a successful race.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Anonymous gift in memory of Margaret Quayle Kerruish; the Thomas S. Grasselli Memorial Collection, and various donors by exchange · CC0
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