The domed foot chased with a band of scrolls on a matted ground, and with fluted border, the baluster stem with three S-shaped grotesque mask brackets, the associated bowl formed from ten mother-of-pearl panels, with scalloped border below and shield-shaped panels above on the exterior, the straps stamped with roses, the rim engraved with scrolling flowers, fully marked on foot and bowl-rim
7³⁄₄ in. (19.7 cm.) high
gross weight 16 oz. 4 dwt. (504 gr.)

with Spink and Son, London, 1988, with glass bowl.
with Brand Inglis, May 1995.

Country Life, Spink and Son advertisement, 2 June 1988, no. 182, vol. 22, p. 111.

The Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, London, 1988, with glass bowl.

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Please note that the cataloguing has been amended to:

A JAMES I SILVER-MOUNTED CUP WITH ASSOCIATED MOTHER-OF-PEARL BOWL
THE MOUNTS LONDON, 1603, MAKER’S MARK CB IN MONOGRAM

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Lot Essay

This rare James I mother-of-pearl mounted cup shares a number of similarities with a small group of similar mounted objects such as an ostrich egg cup and cover of 1591, almost certainly by the same maker, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, which was published in Y. Hackenbroch, Engish and Other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, New York, 1969, cat. no. 17, p. 11. The stems are almost identical with the three grotesque mask scroll. A coconut cup in the collection of Sir Chares Jackson also my the maker CB in monogram, has a related domed foot with strapwork ornament and related engraved scrolling foliage on the lip, with addition of acorns, see Sir Chares Jackson, An Illustrated History of English Plate, London, 1911, p. 664, fig. 873.