3-078-231 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Ascot Royal Hunt Cup, 1890. Horse-racing prize. 'Royal Ascot continues to be the most delightful of race-meetings, a happy hunting-ground for Society flirts as well as the scene of some of the keenest contests of the year...The Royal Hunt Cup for Ascot this year is manufactured by Messrs. Hancocks and Co., of Bruton-street, Bond-street. It is a Cellini-shaped ewer, boldly chased with designs illustrating one of the legends of the goddess Diana. On the front, Actaeon, mounted on horseback, with his hounds, surprising Diana as she bathes ; on the reverse side, Actaeon transformed into a stag, pursued by his own hounds. The handle is supported by a figure of Victory, and below it is the mask of Jupiter. This ewer is accompanied by a dish for rose-water, embellished with five medallions in high relief, and with the Imperial and Royal arms in the centre'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.