A LARGE PARCEL-GILT SILVER BEAKER, CARL FRIEDRICH CLEMENS, RIGA, CIRCA 1760 | A large parcel-gilt silver beaker, Carl Friedrich Clemens, Riga, circa 1760

resting on a gadrooned foot, the body engraved with armorials and letters C/DE A/W

The arms are those of Chodkiewicz, a very important Latvian family, whose coat-of-arms are incorporated in the arms if Latvia. This beaker has probably been made for Jan Mikotaj Chodkiewicz (1738-1781), lord of Samogita, Earl of Szktow and Nowa Mita, colonel of the Vilnius province, governor of Wielu.