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" This Cupp was Made of the Greate Seale of Irelande In Anno Domini 1604 After the Deathe of The Blessed Queene Elizabethe The Moste Blessed Prince That Euer raigned Adam loftus lord Archbisshopp of Dublin was then And Is Now lorde Chaunceller of Irelande and was
Three Tymes lorde lustice and Gouernor
of the
same realme."
This cup belongs to Mr. J. Dunn Gardner, and is now in the South Kensington Museum. A highly enriched gourd-shaped cup, " The Berry Cup," forms part of the Corporation plate of called the town of Portsmouth; it is silver gilt, and was made in 1608-9. At the Clothworkers' Hall there is a large and well-worked cup, which was given by Samuel Pepys in 1678. The bowl of this is formed of two parts, the inner being plain, and the outer one, which is removable, is ornamented with flowers and scrolls of elaborate
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Small Silver Beaker.
Stamped
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in Norwich, 1697, belonging
to J.
H. Walter, Esq.
The designs in the eighteenth century were somewhat difbeing more urn-shaped, and having two, or sometimes three, A fine example of such a two-handled covered cup, handles. made in 1739 by the celebrated Paul de Lamerie, is now at the Goldsmiths' Hall in London. This is simple in outline, but richly decorated with masks and flowers in repousse work. Many of the standing cups made at this period are of the same pattern as the Wedgwood ware designed by Flaxman; indeed, some of the silver vessels made at this time might almost as well have been in china form.
ferent,
as in silver.