ID 1360064
Lot 25 | A DUTCH SILVER BEAKER
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
MARK OF JACOBUS WUESSYM, GRONINGEN, 1646
Tapering octagonal with flared lip, on spreading domed foot chased with a band of grotesque masks flanked by scrolls, the lower body applied with a band of die-rolled strapwork with a rope-twist band above, the sides engraved with oval cartouches enclosing seven Virtues enclosed by elaborate foliate scroll pendants, the eighth cartouche enclosing vacant accolé coats-of-arms surmounted by a helm, each panel engraved with an animal, hunter, or a monkey amid fruit, marked on base, with assay scrape to underside, lip with later Dutch control mark
7 ¾ in. (19.7 cm.)
12 ozt. 2 dwt. (376 gr.)
Provenance
Acquired from S.J. Phillips Ltd., London, September 1976.
Literature
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 38, pp. 176-177.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Category: | Beakers |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Category: | Beakers |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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