A GROUP OF SIX SILVER-MOUNTED COCONUT CUPS
VARIOUS MAKERS, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
Comprising a cup carved with feathers and ribbon-tied floral swags, silver mounts by Francis Powell, London, 1822, another carved with instruments and tools within ribbon-tied roundels linked by drapery swags, silver mounts by Thomas Phipps & Edward Robinson, London, 1796, an example carved with indigenous peoples interacting with European settlers, foot marked I pellet S possibly for John Stoyle, Dublin, circa 1810, a Russian example with plain nut, the silver foot chased with sweeping lobes, foot marked 1767, rim of cover marked for Astrakan, 1765, a two-handled example with silver mounts engraved with leaftips and lattice, apparently unmarked, and another example carved with a coat-of-arms and pineapple, silver rim apparently unmarked
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high, the largest
A GROUP OF SIX SILVER-MOUNTED COCONUT CUPS
VARIOUS MAKERS, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
Comprising a cup carved with feathers and ribbon-tied floral swags, silver mounts by Francis Powell, London, 1822, another carved with instruments and tools within ribbon-tied roundels linked by drapery swags, silver mounts by Thomas Phipps & Edward Robinson, London, 1796, an example carved with indigenous peoples interacting with European settlers, foot marked I pellet S possibly for John Stoyle, Dublin, circa 1810, a Russian example with plain nut, the silver foot chased with sweeping lobes, foot marked 1767, rim of cover marked for Astrakan, 1765, a two-handled example with silver mounts engraved with leaftips and lattice, apparently unmarked, and another example carved with a coat-of-arms and pineapple, silver rim apparently unmarked
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high, the largest
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