Sterling Silver Dog Head Stirrup Cup

An exceptional, fine and impressive, antique Victorian English sterling silver cup; an addition to our Victorian silverware collection This exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver presentation cup has a campania shaped form to a circular domed foot. The bulbous, shaped lower portion of this silver cup is embellished with impressive chased and embossed leaf and floral decoration. The plain tapering surface of the cup incorporates the contemporary engraved coat of arms depicting a chevron between three roses, barbed, seeded on a chief of the second a lion passant guardant between two closed books paleways, clasped and garnished of the last, the clasps to the dexter, all above the motto 'Virtus vera nobilitas' - Virtue is true nobility*. The opposing side of this presentation piece incorporates the contemporary engraved inscription 'This Oration Prize the legacy of Dr Hooper adjudged to John Maurice Schulhof by Trinity college Cambridge, 1880' The upper rim of the cup is encompassed with an applied moulded decorated border. This impressive Victorian cup...

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Hallmarked in London in 1904, 1927, 1930 and 1936 and Chester in 1909 by Berthold Muller, Adolph Barsach Davis, L. Neresheimer & Co. & Israel Segalov, this charming, matched collection of 6 Antique Sterling Silver Stirrup Cups, all feature fox head stands...

Exceptional Modern Sterling Silver Stirrup Cup Shaped as a Rabbit. Maker: John Reginald Burrows. Made in the United Kingdom, Birmingham 2008. Fully hallmarked. Crafted by the renown...

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Hallmarked in London in 1899 by Stuart Clifford, this very rare pair of Antique, Sterling Silver Pepper Pots, are modelled as a seated Cat ...