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Standing-cup with bowl formed from a nautilus shell (Nautilus pompilius), set in silver-gilt mounts. Domed oval base embossed with two scenes of combat featuring mermen, marine monsters and sea creatures. Stem of cup in form of a bearded merman with trident and conch shell, riding a fantastical creature emerging from waves on top of the base, the creature’s rear within a snail-like shell. Above the stem and beneath the nautilus shell is a scallop-shell calyx to which the strap-mounts which hold the nautilus shell are attached. These are in the form of a monster fishes on a wave terminating in applied rosettes on either side, and a grotesque mask, a ring hanging from its mouth. The two side strap-mounts are in the form of sea-satyrs grasping dolphins above their heads.The rim-mount has a twisted rope moulding with a lambrequin border with oval bosses below, and is engraved with monster-fishes, tritons and a putto blowing conch-shell trumpets. Above the curl of the nautilus shell is a galloping seahorse in waves ridden by a bearded man, carrying a spear in his right hand; his left hand (now empty) is designed to hold an object in a similar way. |
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| Source | British Museum |
| Author | Dale Cruse from San Francisco, CA, USA |
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