A French silver-gilt beaker, Joachim Fridrich Kirsenstein, Strasbourg, circa 1730

oval fluted, engraved with Régence ornament and engraved acollée armorials, underside with scratchweight and numbered n.2, also with an 1806 Austrian control mark

Marks a bit worn, but still clear, general condition good, engraving pretty crisp, colour good, nice beaker
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An almost identical beaker by this goldsmith, is part of a little necessaire with knife, fork, spoon and marrow scoop, in the Museum of decorative art Strasbourg, ref. XXXV-125 (goblet) and XXXVI-3 remainder. Kirsenstein (Kirstein), not a native of Strasbourg,  became a master there in 1729 by right of marriage to the daughter of a goldsmith Marie-Salomé Widder. His descendents were goldsmiths in Strasbourg until 1860.

The arms are those of Count Franciszek Maksymilian OSSOLINSKI (born 2 April 1696, died 1 July 1756) and those of his wife (married 1732) Princess Katarzyna JABLONOWSKA (born 1696, died 5 January 1756). The Polish politician was a private secretary to Augustus The Strong. He refused however to submit to Augustus III and after 1736 stayed at the court of Stanisław Leszczyński in Lunéville in Lorraine.