ID 1360045
Lot 11 | A GERMAN SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
MAKER'S MARK F, UNRECORDED, AUGSBURG, 1580-1586
The cylindrical cup chased and engraved with strapwork, flowering urns, fruit, and masks against a stippled ground, the conforming domed cover with spool shaped finial surmounted by a fully modeled figure of a knight, his shield inset with a plaque engraved with two coats-of-arms suspended from a ribbon, the body on a knopped stem and domed foot similarly chased and engraved with fruit and flowers amongst strapwork, and with fluted rim, marked on foot rim and with later French tax mark
15 5/8 in. (39.7 cm.) high
18 oz. 18 dwt. (587.8 gr.)
Provenance
Acquired from Cyril Humphries Ltd., 23 Old Bond St., London, December 1973
Literature
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 19, pp. 121-123.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Category: | Cups |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Category: | Cups |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
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