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Loving cup presented to Admiral Francis Geary
Loving cup and cover presented to Captain, later Admiral Francis Geary RN (1710?-96) for his service at the Siege of Louisbourg, 1745.
The cup, which has two scroll handles, is chased overall with flowers, fruit and scrollwork, and around the lower part of the bowl are engravings of four ships named in cartouches above as 'Elephant', 'Heron', 'Deleverance', and 'Chester'. The upper part of the bowl has two empty cartouches. The domed cover has a scroll knop and a crest of a bear's paw holding laurel branches.
Captain Francis Geary, later Admiral Sir Francis Geary, of the Chester 50 guns, took three prizes in 1754, likely to be Dunkirk privateers. On 20 February 1754, in company with the 'Sutherland', she took the 'Elephant', and in August 1745 he brought two captures into Louisbourg, the 'Heron', a French East Indiaman from Bengal, and the French 'Notre Dame de Deliverance', from Lima with £300,000 and a cargo of cocoa.
The cup, which has two scroll handles, is chased overall with flowers, fruit and scrollwork, and around the lower part of the bowl are engravings of four ships named in cartouches above as 'Elephant', 'Heron', 'Deleverance', and 'Chester'. The upper part of the bowl has two empty cartouches. The domed cover has a scroll knop and a crest of a bear's paw holding laurel branches.
Captain Francis Geary, later Admiral Sir Francis Geary, of the Chester 50 guns, took three prizes in 1754, likely to be Dunkirk privateers. On 20 February 1754, in company with the 'Sutherland', she took the 'Elephant', and in August 1745 he brought two captures into Louisbourg, the 'Heron', a French East Indiaman from Bengal, and the French 'Notre Dame de Deliverance', from Lima with £300,000 and a cargo of cocoa.
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Object Details
| ID: | PLT0053 |
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| Collection: | Decorative art |
| Type: | Loving cup |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Cook, Thomas; Gurney, Richard |
| Events: | War of the Austrian Succession: Siege of Louisbourg, 1745 |
| Vessels: | Chester (1708); Elephant fl.1745 Heron fl.1745 (East Indiaman, French) Notre Dame de Deliverence fl.1745 |
| Date made: | 1745; 1745-1746 1745-46 |
| People: | Geary, Francis |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Acquired with the assistance of The Art Fund, 1941 |
| Measurements: | Overall: 380 x 300 mm |
| Parts: | Loving cup presented to Admiral Francis Geary |