λ AN AUSTRIAN IVORY AND SILVER MOUNTED CUP

λ AN AUSTRIAN IVORY AND SILVER MOUNTED CUP

IN THE MANNER OF IGNAZ ELHAFEN, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

carved in high relief with the Rape of the Sabine Women, depicting half-naked women struggling with men in armour, the base of the silver mounts with Vienna hallmarks for probably Friedrich Georg Triesch 1836, and inscribed with inventory number 'No. 81', the rim inscribed 'From Sir Charles Domvile Bart to Lady Louisa Boyle on her marriage'

14.5cm high (overall), 13cm wide

Provenance

The Collection of Sir Charles Compton William Domvile, 2nd Baronet (1822-1884).

Gifted to Lady Louisa Caroline Elizabeth Boyle (d.1876) on the occasion of her marriage to Arthur Algernon Capell, 6th Earl of Essex (1803-1892) on the 3rd June 1863.

By direct descent.