Rock crystal cup
Giovanni Ambrogio Miseroni
Milan, 1585–1600
Rock crystal, enamelled gold
17.7 x 27.5 x 18.2 cm
The cup was formerly in the Borghese Collection before entering the collection of Baron Gustave de Rothschild in Paris in 1879 and thence passing by descent to the Marquesses of Cholmondeley at Houghton Hall, Norfolk.