Lot 239
  • 239

An Austrian large silver-gilt and enamel covered cup in the form of a two-headed roc, circa 1880

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • apparently unmarked, the front scene signed Pfuhl. Wiln. Maler
  • silver, enamel
  • height 16 1/4 in.
  • 41.5 cm
the bird painted with twenty mythological vignettes surrounded by foliage, with openwork silver-gilt and enamel borders of Renaissance ornament, the finial as a seated blackamoor in Roman armor holding scepter

Condition

minor enamel losses throughout
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