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Lot 23
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Johann Amende German parcel-gilt silver beaker

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • silver
  • 8.4cm, 3 3/8 in high
tapering cylindrical, finely engraved with blooming foliage, gilt interior

Literature

Exh. Cat. Couven-Museum Aachen, 2003, no. 59

Condition

In overall good condition. Usual minor scratches.Clear marks under the base with assay scrape. Very nice quality of engraving.
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Catalogue Note

Johann Amende was born in 1647 in Torgau in Saxony. He became a master in Augsburg in 1681 and married in the same year. He died in 1719.