Jean-Jacques Ehrlen French silver-gilt beaker

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Description

silver
8.5cm, 3 3/8in high

engraved Régence borders on matting above lobed foot

Literature

Exh. Cat. Couven-Museum Aachen, 2003, no. 104

Catalogue Note

Jean-Jacques Ehrlen, the son of a pastor, was born in 1700. He became a master goldsmith in 1728 and married the same year. In 1758, his daughter, Marie-Salome, married goldsmith Jean-Christian Zahrt, who took over Ehrlen’s workshop after his death in 1781.