ID 437352
Los 216 | A COMMONWEALTH IRISH SILVER-MOUNTED COCONUT-CUP
Schätzwert
£ 5 000 – 8 000
MARK OF JOHN THORTON, DUBLIN, CIRCA 1657
The coconut carved with two ships, the pennant on one inscribed 'Mather, I 1657', the nut also carved with the goddess Venus emerging from the sea on a scallop shell and a mermaid combing her hair, the base with a fruit within a shield and rose, the rim pricked engraved with the initials TE beneath C, the nut held by ribbed straps and with scroll handles and ring foot with three grotesque scroll supports, marked on rim with maker's mark only, the foot with scratchweight '4-10'
4 3/8 in. (11.3 cm.) high
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