Jewellery, Silver and Objects of Vertu

A silver drinking horn, 1905, modelled on Viking or Celtic prototypes, the spot-hammered body with dolphin mask terminal and two supporting curved legs, the rim engraved with a black letter inscription, numbered ‘74350’, by Horace Woodward & Co., London hallmark, height 10cm.

£400-£600

The inscription reads: “I have sought to live worthily the while I lived, and after my life to leave to the men that come after me a remembering of me in good works”.
After the quotation from “Consolation of Philosophy” by Boethius, by tradition translated into early English by Alfred the Great.

Inscription a little rubbed.
Weight 4.5 troy oz.