3-011-623 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Loan Collection, South-Kensington, 1862. 'Silver-gilt standing-cup; silver cup; silver-gilt beaker; crystal tankard, "The Poison-Cup"; casket; silver-gilt salt. Tankard...called "The Poison-Cup." The drum is made of glass inclosed in silver filigree...Its cover is set with a conical crystal...It is called "The Poison Cup" in allusion to the superstition that if poison were poured into it the glass would break and the crystal on the lid become discoloured...English work, latter part of the 16th century. Clare College. Silver-gilt salt, with pyramidal cover...An inscription round the base...[has a] quotation from the 103rd Psalm...a play on the donor's name. English, latter part of the 15th century; presented (1493) to the college by Walter Hill. New College. Tankard, mounted in silver-gilt, the drum richly carved with a mythological subject, the Marriage of Jupiter and Juno, &c.: on the cover, which is in ivory, a beautiful frieze of amorini, &c. An exquisitely-finished Flemish tankard, circa 1650. Robert Napier, Esq.'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.