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Lot 79
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Johann Ludwig I Schoap pair of Germansilver-gilt tumbler cups

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • silver
  • 4.4cm, 1 5/8 in high
chased and embossed with figures in landscape with ruins

Provenance

Galerie Neuse, Bremen

Literature

Exh. Cat. Couven-Museum Aachen, 2003, no. 65

Condition

In overall good condition. Some minor dents all over the surface. Legible marks under the bases. Nice colour. Very nice quality.
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Catalogue Note

Johann Ludwig Schoap I was born and baptized in Augsburg in 1667. He became a master goldsmith in 1695 and married Mary Judith, the daughter of a goldsmith Johann Christoph Peters I.  He died in 1741.