<P> A Rosewater dish is a ceremonial platter or basin used after eating to catch rosewater poured from warm or cold ewers over the hands to wash them, which was a daily ceremony in England . Later, such dishes were used for display only . This one includes an image of the goddess Venus . A salver (Latin salva, save from risk) was originally used by food tasters who tested food for poison . A rosewater dish was considered a salver by extension . These dishes were made of pewter, silver, or gold . </P> <P> The 50 guineas trophy is an 18 3 / 4 inch diameter, partially gilded, sterling silver salver made in 1864 by Elkington & Co. of Birmingham, and is a copy of an electrotype by Caspar Enderlein from a pewter original in the Louvre . It is tradition for the winner to be awarded the trophy by the President of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, HRH the Duke of Kent, and then walk a lap around the court to display the trophy to the crowd and photographers . The winner does not keep the trophy, which remains in the museum at the All - England club, but from 1949 to 2006 all Champions have received a miniature replica of the trophy (diameter 8 inches), and from 2007 all Champions have received a three - quarter replica of the trophy, bearing the names of all past Champions (diameter 14 inches). </P> <P> Being a reproduction of a Paris museum antique, the theme of decoration is related to not tennis but Classical mythology . The central boss depicts the figure of Sophrosyne (not Venus), the personification of temperance and moderation, seated on a chest with a lamp in her right hand and a jug in her left, with various attributes such as a sickle, fork and caduceus around her . The four reserves on the boss of the dish each contain a classical god, together with elements . The reserves around the rim show Minerva presiding over the seven liberal arts: astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, music, rhetoric, dialectic and grammar, each with relevant attribute . The rim of the salver has an ovolo moulding . The remainder of the surface is decorated with gilt renaissance strapwork and foliate motifs in relief against a rigid silver ground . </P>

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