A GERMANIC GILT-COPPER MOUNTED COCONUT CUP AND COVER, UNMARKED, CIRCA 1590
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December 11, 04:05 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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A GERMANIC GILT-COPPER MOUNTED COCONUT CUP AND COVER, UNMARKED, CIRCA 1590
the circular domed base rising to a vase stem, straps, shoulder and lip mounts, the detachable cover surmounted by naked female on a globe with dolphins, engraved throughout with hatched arabesque foliage interrupted by male profile masks
32cm., 12½in 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
This type of hatched floral ornament interrupted by profile medallions was fashionable around the 1580’s. See for example a beaker dated 1587, in Rudolf-Alexander Schütte, Die Silberkammer der Landgrafen von Hessen-Kassel, Staatliche Museen Kassel, 2003, p. 116