A fine and early French silver-gilt beaker, Jacob Scherer, Strassbourg, circa 1587

the lip engraved with foliage and portraits holding a shield engraved with the arms of each other, enclosing animals refering to the arms above a wrigglework girdle, below a stylised lobate body on matting, the foot with a lozenges and wrigglework decoration, the reverse base armorial engraved and dated 1587, fully marked at the base