Beaker

Bellamy, Ellen Washington · ca 1860

Handleless seamed cylindrical cup with Rococo-style, bright-cut and engine-turned engraving on its straight tapered sides; decoration includes three scrolled reserves, one engraved "E.C.W." in script and two featurng flowers at their centers. Applied molded rim and foot ring, both with beading; flat bottom set in. Bottom underside struck once with a vertically-oriented incuse mark (partial) of "T / E / & / Co" over a circle and a diamond or lozenge containing "1 / 5 7 / 8"; "11" stamped sideways at right. One of two monogrammed beakers by the same maker in two similar patterns, DL*60.0989 and DL*60.1060.