Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
A GERMANIC GILT-COPPER MOUNTED COCONUT CUP AND COVER, UNMARKED, CIRCA 1580
Auction Closed
December 11, 04:05 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A GERMANIC GILT-COPPER MOUNTED COCONUT CUP AND COVER, UNMARKED, CIRCA 1580
the circular domed base rising to a vase stem, straps, shoulder and lip mounts, the detachable cover with flat finial engraved with a coat-of-arms and inscribed Klas/GVOterr, engraved throughout with hatched arabesque foliage interrupted by male profile masks
29.1cm., 11½in. high
‘Spetchley Park -I. Worcestershire, The Seat of Mr. R. V. Berkeley', Country Life, 8 July 1916, p. 45, illustrated in the Drawing Room;
Inventory, 1949, 'COCONUT CUPS, heavy parcel gilt mounts and covers, Augsberg' in the Strong Room