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Title:Cup with cover
Date:1558–59
Culture:British, London
Medium:Gilt silver
Dimensions:Height: 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm)
Classification:Metalwork-Silver
Credit Line:Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968
Object Number:68.141.298a, b
Marking: [1] leopard's head (London assay office mark); [2] lion passant (English quality mark for sterling); [3] A in shaped outline (date letter for 1558–59); [4] indecipherable maker's mark).
Location of marks: [1]–[4] near lip of cup
William Randolph Hearst , St. Donat's Castle, Wales (until 1938; his sale of silver, Christie's, December 14, 1938, no. 105); Irwin Untermyer (until 1968; to MMA)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Highlights of the Untermyer Collection of English and Continental Decorative Arts," September 29, 1977–May 21, 1978.
San Francisco. Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "English Silver from the Untermyer Collection," June 28, 1979–August 20, 1979.
Kansas City. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. "English Silver from the Untermyer Collection," September 1979–November 1979.
New York. The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Rich Man, Poor Man: Art, Class, and Commerce in a Late Medieval Town," March 6, 2023–February 4, 2024.
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