THE ROYAL HUNT CUP, ASCOT, 1884 A VICTORIAN SILVER CENTREPIECE
MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT AND ROBERT ROSKELL LONDON, 1884
THE ROYAL HUNT CUP, ASCOT, 1884 A VICTORIAN SILVER CENTREPIECE MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT AND ROBERT ROSKELL LONDON, 1884 Formed as Robin Hood and his band, depicted standing on a rocky mound after a successful stag hunt, the dead stag surrounded by standing figures of Friar Tuck and Little John, Maid Marion sitting to one side, pouring wine from a jug, watched by a dog, while another huntsman kneels by the stag and another reclines, holding a wine-cup up in toast to Robin Hood, who stands on the top of the mount blowing his hunting horn, a dog at his feet, all on a ebonised wood plinth, applied in silver on one side 'Royal Hunt Cup, Ascot, 1884' and on the other 'Won by Acrostic', marked on base 23½ in. (60 cm.) wide 500 oz. (15,550 gr.)
THE ROYAL HUNT CUP, ASCOT, 1884 A VICTORIAN SILVER CENTREPIECE
MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT AND ROBERT ROSKELL LONDON, 1884
THE ROYAL HUNT CUP, ASCOT, 1884 A VICTORIAN SILVER CENTREPIECE MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT AND ROBERT ROSKELL LONDON, 1884 Formed as Robin Hood and his band, depicted standing on a rocky mound after a successful stag hunt, the dead stag surrounded by standing figures of Friar Tuck and Little John, Maid Marion sitting to one side, pouring wine from a jug, watched by a dog, while another huntsman kneels by the stag and another reclines, holding a wine-cup up in toast to Robin Hood, who stands on the top of the mount blowing his hunting horn, a dog at his feet, all on a ebonised wood plinth, applied in silver on one side 'Royal Hunt Cup, Ascot, 1884' and on the other 'Won by Acrostic', marked on base 23½ in. (60 cm.) wide 500 oz. (15,550 gr.)
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