A FINE CONTINENTAL GOLD-MOUNTED LAPIS LAZULI CUP
SECOND HALF OF 19TH CENTURY, THE LAPIS CUP POSSIBLY EARLIER
18K, in mannerist taste; the oval lapis cup with serpentine everted rim, the bowl finely carved with a calyx of leaf-and-dart, the oval foot with a beaded knop; the shaped triangular base with Vitruvian scroll border set with lapis roundels and chased with waves, supporting three dolphin-form brackets, one rising to support an entwined-dolphin handle enclosing a lapis ball, the spout of the cup finely modelled as a sea-monster issuing from acanthus, apparently unmarked
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) long
A FINE CONTINENTAL GOLD-MOUNTED LAPIS LAZULI CUP
SECOND HALF OF 19TH CENTURY, THE LAPIS CUP POSSIBLY EARLIER
18K, in mannerist taste; the oval lapis cup with serpentine everted rim, the bowl finely carved with a calyx of leaf-and-dart, the oval foot with a beaded knop; the shaped triangular base with Vitruvian scroll border set with lapis roundels and chased with waves, supporting three dolphin-form brackets, one rising to support an entwined-dolphin handle enclosing a lapis ball, the spout of the cup finely modelled as a sea-monster issuing from acanthus, apparently unmarked
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) long
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