3-043-821 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Prize cup of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, 1872. 'The prize cups of this club, won in the Channel race from Ryde to Cherbourg and thence to Portland and home to Ryde, are two silver tankards, designed and manufactured by Signor Raphael Monti. The one shown in our Illustration is adorned with sculpture representing the mythological deities of the sea. Neptune and Amphitrite are seated together on the lid. The handle is supported by a young Triton holding a coil of seaweeds. The spout is a sea-shell, held by a pair of Nereids. The figures in relief around the tankard are the sea gods and goddesses and nymphs; Thetis conducted by the Tritons and Oceanides, in a car drawn by sea-horses, along the watery way; the ancient sire Oceanus stretching his vast arms over the surface of the deep; Leucothoe and her child Melicertes riding on a dolphin; old Nereus, with his fair spouse Doris, mounted on another dolphin; Proteus the double-faced, Phorcys and Ceto, AEgaon, Glaucus, and the horn-blowing Triton. This classical composition is truly elegant, and does much credit to the artist'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.