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Lot 152

AN ENGLISH SILVER 'SKYPHOS' CUP
by Edward Barnard & Sons Ltd., London, 1902

31 March – 9 April 2025, 12:00 PDT
Online, Los Angeles

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AN ENGLISH SILVER 'SKYPHOS' CUP

by Edward Barnard & Sons Ltd., London, 1902
Repoussé and chase decorated with berried ivy branches against pounced ground with gilt-washed interior.
height 10in; width 14 1/4in; total weight approximately 60oz troy.

Footnotes

The form and decoration of this urn is based on a drinking vessel uncovered during an archaeological dig in Pompeii in 1835. During antiquity ivy was thought to be a remedy for headaches as well as a symbol for immortality.

Examples of such skyphoi can be found in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Musée d'Archéologie nationale et Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, (illustrated in Blair, Claude, ed. The History of Silver, New York, 1987, p. 19), and the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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