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PORCELLIAN CLUB harvard new york antique silver bowl cambridge boston university
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
£400,512.66
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Description
Monstrous, decadent, comical, 18 1/2", fraternal drinking chalice. Bearing the signatures of all ten of the 1906 Porcellian Club members, this is likely the largest and most important artifact ever to escape the halls of Harvard's most elusive club or, all of Harvard for that matter!? The punch bowl sized chalice is inscribed with the 1906 wedding date for Joseph G. Willis. With no mention of the actual wedding (or the bride!), it is our opinion that this was not a wedding gift, but given as a celebratory frat-house drink mug. A gag gift. Stories handed down through the family support this conclusion (club members joked about it, passed it around and drank directly out of it). New York's impressive 1906 Dominick & Haff 925 sterling mark. Large & heavy, weighs about 4 1/2 POUNDS! Measures 18 1/2" across the handles, 12 1/2" across the rim and 8 1/2" high. Has a few dents & scratches (as pictured) but, as you can see, it displays as "beyond spectacular!"
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