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Two-handled Cup and Cover

Two-handled Cup and Cover

Maker's mark TP, two pellets and mullets below, in shield-shaped punch with canted corners at top

British

Of bulbous circular form, the sides repoussé and chased with flowerheads and wrigglework with a running lion on one side and a unicorn on the other, with two cast caryatid-form scroll handles; the domed cover with conforming decoration and plain flat spool-form finial.

Silver

Charles II (1660-1685)

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