A George III silver-gilt two-handled cup and cover, Louisa Courtauld and George Cowles, London, 1771

urn form, on spiral fluted pedestal base, body with classical masks linked by drapery and centered by rosettes, a scrolling acanthus frieze, matching capped handles, acorn finial

surface disrupted on one side below frieze, crest removed? nice pale lemon gilding lightly rubbed at high spots; otherwise crisp, good condition
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A portrait of Louisa Courtauld by Zoffany is reproduced in E. Alfred Jones, Some Silver Wrought by the Courtauld Family, Oxford, 1940. Grimwade, in London Goldsmiths 1697-1837, p. 474 notes "Her work... shows in the main, well executed classical motifs in the decoration of cups and coffee-pots." A similar cup is at the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated Robert Rowe, Adam Silver, p. 19, described p. 39-40.