Two-Handled Presentation Cup

between 1737 and 1738

Benjamin Godfrey English, active 1731-1741

On View

British, Level 3, South Wing

Two-Handled Presentation Cup: 1 of Collection Gallery

Two-Handled Presentation Cup: 2 of Collection Gallery

Two-Handled Presentation Cup: 3 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

Title Two-Handled Presentation Cup

Artwork Date between 1737 and 1738

Artist Benjamin Godfrey

Life Dates active 1731-1741

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Silver, gold

Dimensions 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)

Classification Silver

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Edsel and Eleanor Ford Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.2

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed: The Gift of the Honourable Catherine Talbot to Colonel Charles Talbot, December 1784

Marks 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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Published References

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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Credit Line for Reproduction

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.