IN 'THE ^tJE EN’S > «L Ë ^T ÏÓ N ; AT WINDSOR.
THE beautiful cup’ - represented in the Jccein^
panyiia'g Opiate was^ ^ S ^ ^ g jby
Messrs. "RimM and li|iS ( Ip a * ^ g g ‘ef< >f tlie
of Waitetead House,, in J’822, and >y..them^jjo^
SCingJ^^Sjsge - IjV. F Tt tlte^Goluy
Elate Room at Wind^Q# Qastle. The b o ^ r |l ^M ^ É
jl^ a4 nautilus slit 11, mount
with .j^^ytM^l ^ t ^ saiiie material, the silVéiy^èiiig
■te»in its. natural|cblddr^to^|)resetit the flsfffiHSH
figures, «ndmEyb^ » of 1 'Q'^ds. the
eup/aud^Ksdid. The height
^ » 'ih e h e s .
Mr. Jófi®' G.,Bridge, of .the, above firm, to whom we
are inde^esiifpT thè ae^yiint of this .ou^ states that iy|
was frequently seed l^J^Éd late John Flaxman, R.A.,
PjyW ixpre^Sed'^iil opinion that it -was a ’vsoik^g^tlie '
^famous Benvenuto - GeUini. K so^ jit^^^ ^ B obabl^
llp c tited 'a t tfie time when that artist wa^ in Eranoe
working jfor tbpifiourt oÈFrafrcis thé First; and this
Supposition is strengthened by the circumstance ofj^ l
;; figure of Jupiter bearing aïHdse^èsè^^
profile of that monarch: A cC o riln |^ ^ ie Biograpbie
Igfiverselle, a silver cup, b e a u t i f u l l .
f ^ e same artist, was bought by an amateur
travelliiig in Italy, in l774,' forrtfielgrtat^|imi
hundred^«.
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