Cup and Cover, 1933 [Si180]
London, 1933; maker’s mark: OR (Omar Ramsden); signed inside the foot: OMAR RAMSDEN ME FECIT
Silver and parcel gilt: H. 19.8 cm, W. 14.2 cm, 793 g
Inscribed around the rim of the cup: WICCAMICIS ETONENSES OB CERTAMEN PILARE CENTIES PERACTUM – MDCCCCXXXIII.
Cup and cover of beaten silver, both gilded inside. The moulded foot with a band of pierced quatrefoils, the stem with a twisted fillet at the top. The cover ornamented with twisted wire around the rim and surmounted by a rose of Winchester surrounded by six lilies of Eton. Engraved with the arms of Eton College and Winchester College. With a turned cup-stand of English oak, a silver rose in the centre. Engraved with the arms of Wykeham and the arms of Eton.
Silver cups were exchanged to commemorate a century of cricket matches between Eton and Winchester. This cup was thereafter reserved for the use of the Captain of Lord’s XI (Winchester’s First XI) during matches against other schools and at Domum Dinner (see Minutes of Estates and Finance Committee, 26 May, 1934). Omar Ramsden designed a number of similar covered cups, for example one from 1927 formerly in the Campbell Collection, sold Sotheby’s 20/4/2005, lot. 33.
Provenance: Given by the Provost and Fellows of Eton College, 1933
Location: Treasury, Gallery 1
