A German silver trembleuse with later clear glass liner

MAKER'S MARK AM (NOT IN SELING), AUGSBURG, 1753/55

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A German silver trembleuse with later clear glass liner
Maker's mark AM (not in Seling), Augsburg, 1753/55
The leaf-shaped dish with scroll handle and on oval plain foot, the detachable spreading cup-holder decorated with openworke foliate C-scrolls, the erverse struck with a coat of arms
18cm wide
(220gr.)
Literature
Silver trembleuses seem quite rare, mainly they appear in porcelain and other materials.
Seling, H., Die Kunst der Ausburger Goldschmiede 1529-1868, part II, only describes and illustrates two more extensive silver ones: nr. 878 and 879

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