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Silver cup and cover presented to Captain Lawrence Irvine
Cup and cover presented to Captain Lawrence Irvine, 1758.
The cup has a pear-shaped body and scroll handles decorated with acanthus leaves, and stands on a circular foot. The domed lid has a fluted finial and a gadrooned edge.
Engraved within a cartouche on the body, surrounded by scrolls, foliage and a mask: 'To CAPT. LAWRENCE IRVINE, this Cup is presented by the Underwriters, in gratefull [sic] Commemoration of his bravely Beating off a large French Privateer wch boarded his ship the Lyon in Auracabessa Harbour in Jamaica on April 12th 1758'.
The cup has a pear-shaped body and scroll handles decorated with acanthus leaves, and stands on a circular foot. The domed lid has a fluted finial and a gadrooned edge.
Engraved within a cartouche on the body, surrounded by scrolls, foliage and a mask: 'To CAPT. LAWRENCE IRVINE, this Cup is presented by the Underwriters, in gratefull [sic] Commemoration of his bravely Beating off a large French Privateer wch boarded his ship the Lyon in Auracabessa Harbour in Jamaica on April 12th 1758'.
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Object Details
| ID: | PLT0074 |
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| Collection: | Decorative art |
| Type: | Cup and cover |
| Display location: | Display - Atlantic Gallery |
| Vessels: | Lyon fl.1758 |
| Date made: | 1766; 1766-1767 1766-67 |
| People: | Irvine, Captain Lawrence |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 340 x 300 x 180 mm |
| Parts: | Silver cup and cover presented to Captain Lawrence Irvine |