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Lot 105 Dα

A Strasbourg silver gilt wedding cup

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 7.000 € - 9.000 €
Result: 12.500 € (incl. premium)
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A Strasbourg silver gilt wedding cup

The round, shallow bowl resting on a gadrooned cast silver base. With finely chased scrolling dolphin handles applied to either side. The finely chased corpus decorated with fleur de lys and acanthus appliqués. H 6.8, W 16.4, D 12.4 cm, weight 310 g.
Strasbourg, circa 1690 – 1700.

Literature

Cf. a dish in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, illustrated in Haug, L'orfèvrerie de Strasbourg dans les collections publiques françaises, Strasbourg 1978, no. 56 (inv. D30095). Another with almost identical décor made by the workshop of Johannes Bernhardt illustrated in cat. Vermeilleux, L'Argent doré de Strasbourg du XVIe au XIXe siècle, Paris 2014, no. 18.