About the Artwork
Two-Handled Presentation Cup
between 1737 and 1738
Benjamin Godfrey
active 1731-1741
English
Unknown
Silver, gold
Overall: 13 1/4 × 13 1/8 × 7 3/16 inches, 2 kg 873.4 g (33.7 × 33.3 × 18.3 cm, 6 pounds 5.4 ounces) Overall (cup): 8 1/2 × 13 1/8 × 6 5/8 inches, 2 kg 153.2 g (21.6 × 33.3 × 16.8 cm, 4 pounds 12 ounces) Overall (cover): 6 × 7 3/16 inches (15.2 × 18.3 cm)
Silver
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Edsel and Eleanor Ford Fund
71.2
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed: The Gift of the Honourable Catherine Talbot to Colonel Charles Talbot, December 1784
Stamp, on underside of foot, maker's mark: BG [above a circle and below another unrecognizable symbol in a quatrefoil]; Marks: [b, date letter for 1737-38] Marks: [leopard's head crowned] Marks: [lion passant]
Provenance
until 1747, Hon. John and Henrietta Talbot (London, England)
until 1756, Hon. John and Catherine Talbot
by descent to his widow, Hon. Catherine Talbot
December 1784, Lt. Col. Charles Talbot
by descent to his brother, John Chetwynd Talbot, 3rd Baron and 1st Earl Talbot of Hensol
by descent to the Right Honorable Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford
(Frank Partridge and Sons Ltd., London, England)
1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 51, no. 1 (1972): p. 27 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA 52, no. 2/3 (1973): pp. 92-95 (ill.).
Winokur, R. "Recent Acquisitions of English Silver." Bulletin of the DIA 52, no. 2/3 (1973): pp. 92-96; p. 92 (fig. 1) (ill.).
Grimwade, A. London Goldsmiths 1697-1837. London, 1982, p. 524.
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Benjamin Godfrey, Two-Handled Presentation Cup, between 1737 and 1738, silver, gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Edsel and Eleanor Ford Fund, 71.2.
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