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inventarisnummer | PLT0074
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collectie | Plate
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museum | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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datum | 1766-67
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omschrijving | 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'.
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afmetingen | Overall: 340 x 300 x 180 mm
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