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Victorian Silver Trophy
Modelled as a Racehorse
‘The Goodwood Cup 1860’
Robert Garrard II, London
designed by Edmund Cotterill
1860
height: 58 cm (83.5 cm overall height
with the plinth); length: 71 cm;
weight: 9,3 kg
maker’s mark: RG in script under a
crown mark of Robert Garrard II
sterling silver mark
assay date 1860
assay mark of London
Provenance
Won by William, 4th Earl of Annesley’s
Sweetsauce at the Goodwood Cup run
on 4 August 1860
William, 4th Earl of Annesley
(1830-1874).
Literature
The Illustrated London News, ‘The
Goodwood Cups’, 4 August 1860,
p. 107, illustrated.
Realistically modelled silver figure of a racehorse on textured base. The trophy
was presented to the winner of the Goodwood Cup of 1860, the racehorse
«Sweetsauce».
The piece was designed by Edmund Cotterill (1795-1860), head of the design
studio at Garrards from 1833. Cotterill was responsible for a number of ambitious
sculptural groups including the Emperor’s Plate each year from 1849 through 1852.
In 1840, Prince Albert commissioned Cotterill to make a model of his greyhound
Eos. In 1842-3 the model was used to make a centrepiece now in the collection of
the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Many of Cotterills designs incorporated horses, which he excelled at modelling.
The Illustrated London News, writes that the present lot was the last work executed
by Cotterill who ‘was unrivalled as a modeller of horses’ (vol. 37, 4 August 1860,
p. 107). It describes the cup as ‘a finely-chased model of a thoroughbred horse,
eighteen inches in height to the withers, independent of the ground and pedestal
on which it is mounted.’
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