NAVAL INTEREST. AN OAK TREEN GOBLET MADE FROM WRECKAGE OF THE RAID ON THE MEDWAY

NAVAL INTEREST. AN OAK TREEN GOBLET MADE FROM WRECKAGE OF THE RAID ON THE MEDWAY
C.1875

with a handwritten label to the underside 'Soda Water Cup...oak taken from the HMS Matthias...destroyed by the Dutch fleet...[Med]way in June 1667...in St. Mary's Creek 1875', together with five goblets, including: a mahogany example with a campana shaped bowl on a knopped stem and a turned foot and a walnut example with a reeded bowl on a waisted stem and a turned foot (6)
10.2cm high (max)

Provenance
The Geoffrey Chesters Collection of Treen.