An impressive George V silver gilt cup and cover. 
Skinner & Co., 
London, 1913. 
Raised on a...

An impressive George V silver gilt cup and cover. 

Skinner & Co., 

London, 1913. 

Raised on a square base, the cup of Campana form with cast lion handles and floral garlands applied over a chased wave band, the part-lobed body engraved with arms (apparently a variant on Wood quartering another; the arms and motto suggest the Hill-Wood family) and raised on a circular foot with leaf and lobe decoration, the spirally fluted cover with floral mid-section and a knopped finial, the base later inscribed with four Italian quotations comprising one by Josemaria Escriva, one by the Late Pope John Paul II (Giovanni Paolo II), one by the poet, Metastasio, and one from Guicciardini's 'Ricordi', 62.5cm high, total weight approx. 214ozt 

With thanks to Penelope Gay and David Crellin from the History of Bath Research Group for their assistance in identifying the arms on this cup. 

Inscriptions and translations:

Josemaria Escriva

Lí dove sono gli uomini vostri fratelli, lí dove sono le vostre aspirazioni, il vostro lavoro, lí dove si riversa il vostro amore, quello é il posto del vostro quotidiano incontro con Cristo. Il cielo e la terra sembra che si uniscano laggiú, sulla linea dell'orizzonte. E invece no, é nei vostri cuori che si fondono davvero, quando vivete santamente la vita ordinaria.  

Your daily encounter with Christ takes place where your fellow men, your yearnings, your work and your affections reside. The sky and the earth seem to merge down there, on the line of the horizon . But no, it is truly in your hearts that they blend, when you live a holy, ordinary life.

Giovanni Paolo II

La tenerezza é l'arte di sentire la persona tutta intera. Tutta la sua anima, tutti i moti del suo sentire. Pensando sempre al suo vero bene. 

Tenderness is the art of truly understanding a person: their entire soul, all the movements of their emotions. Always thinking of their true well-being.

Metastasio

Se a ciascun l'interno affanno si leggesse in fronte scritto, quanti mai che l' invidia fanno ci farebbero pietá. 

If each person's inner struggle were written on their forehead, how many of those who provoke envy now would arouse our pity. 

Guicciardini's Ricordi

Piccoli principi e a pena considerabili sono spesso cagione di grandi ruine o di felicitá; peró e grandissima prudenza avvertire e pesare bene ogni cosa benchè minima. 

Small principles and barely noticeable things are often the cause of great ruin or happiness; therefore, it is of utmost prudence to carefully consider and weigh everything, no matter how small.