<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:82px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Design_for_a_Cup_for_Jane_Seymour,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_and_Workshop.jpg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Design_for_a_Cup_for_Jane_Seymour%2C_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_and_Workshop.jpg/80px-Design_for_a_Cup_for_Jane_Seymour%2C_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_and_Workshop.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="148" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Design_for_a_Cup_for_Jane_Seymour%2C_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_and_Workshop.jpg/120px-Design_for_a_Cup_for_Jane_Seymour%2C_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_and_Workshop.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Design_for_a_Cup_for_Jane_Seymour%2C_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_and_Workshop.jpg/160px-Design_for_a_Cup_for_Jane_Seymour%2C_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_and_Workshop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="925" data-file-height="1716"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Design_for_a_Cup_for_Jane_Seymour,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_and_Workshop.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Preliminary design</div></div></div>
<p><i>Design for a Cup for Jane Seymour.</i> Ink and chalk on paper with grey and pink washes and gold heightening, <span style="white-space:nowrap">37.6 × 15.5 cm</span>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum" title="Ashmolean Museum">Ashmolean Museum</a>, Oxford.
The design is for an impressive gold cup to be presented to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Seymour" class="extiw" title="w:Jane Seymour">Queen Jane Seymour</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a>, whom she married on 30 May 1536. The king's and queen's initials are intertwined in love knots, and Jane's motto "bound to obey and serve" appears on the lid and the foot. The resulting cup is described in Henry's inventory as a "faier standing cuppe of gold garnished with diamounts and pearls" (Foister, p. 87).
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This is the final design for the cup; the preliminary design is shown right. According to Susan Foister, it has been suggested by Christian Müller that this sheet is either the work of an assistant or a later copy, since it contains misinterpretations of Holbein's original design.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Hans_Holbein_the_Younger" class="extiw" title="w:en:Hans Holbein the Younger"><span title="German artist and printmaker (1497-1543)">Hans Holbein the Younger</span></a>
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1536–37
Susan Foister, <i>Holbein in England</i>, London: Tate, 2006, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1854376454" title="Special:BookSources/1854376454">ISBN 1854376454</a>.