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This cup commemorates a horse race held at the Wantage Race Track in England in 1795 and bears the inscription:
Wantage Cup./Edwd Lovedon Lovedon Esqr)/ Edwin Martin Atkins Esqr) Stewards/Tuesday Septr 22nd/1795
Horse racing in eighteenth-century England was a sport principally supported by the landed and wealthy, and the trophies rewarded were inevitably costly objects.
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| Title: | Trophy Cup |
| Date: | 1795-1796 |
| Artist: | Workshop of Peter and Ann Bateman (English, active partnership 1791–1800) |
| Medium: | Gilded silver |
| Dimensions: | 18 1/16 x 13 1/4 x 7 15/16 inches (45.9 x 33.7 x 20.2 cm) |
| Classification: | Furniture/Furnishings |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Mrs. Henry B. du Pont, 1940 |
| Accession Number: | 1940-35-1a,b |
| Geography: | Made in London, England, Europe |
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