A CONTINENTAL GILT-COPPER COCONUT CUP AND COVER, SWISS OR SOUTH GERMAN, LATE 16TH CENTURY

A CONTINENTAL GILT-COPPER COCONUT CUP AND COVER, SWISS OR SOUTH GERMAN, LATE 16TH CENTURY

the broad lip mount and cover engraved with fashionable male and female busts and courtly figures hunting stags, fishing and catching rabbits, on a cast stem and plain domed foot, the underside fitted with a disc with housemark in a shield and initialled T S interrupted by animals, a similar armorial engraved disc in the cover, Wildman finial

31cm., 12in. high