Lorentz Johann Röper German large parcel-gilt silver beaker and cover

engraved with two coats-of-arms below a coronet flanked by the initials S.C and H.Z.M

Exh. Cat. Couven-Museum Aachen, 2003, no. 79
Dr. Istvan Heller and  Prof.Dr. Ulrich Schneider, article to accompany TEFAF Maastricht 2003, pp. 16-21, Masterpieces of European Goldsmiths’ works 1560-1860, Couven Museum, Aachen, 2003,  no. 7

In overall good condition. Marks legible under the base. Nice colour.
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The arms are those of Frederick William I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1675-1713), who reigned in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin area of the Duchy of Mecklenburg from 1692 to 1713, and his wife, Sophie Charlotte (1678-1749), daughter of Count Charles I of Hesse–Kassel, whom he married at Kassel in 1704.When the duke died without legitimate issue he was succeeded by his brother, Karl Leopold (1768-1747). The initials are for Sophie Charlotte Herzogin zu Mecklenburg.
Lorentz Johann Röper became a master goldsmith and a citizen of Rostock in 1717. He married Maria Dorothea Reddelin in Güstrow later that year.