MARK OF LAMBERT DE PAUW, UTRECHT, 1627

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A DUTCH SILVER WINE-CUP
MARK OF LAMBERT DE PAUW, UTRECHT, 1627
The tapering bowl chased with three fleur-de-lys, each on a lattice ground and separated by scrolls, the spreading foot with egg and dart border, with fluted baluster stem, the rim engraved with initials, marked near rim
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high
5 oz. (164 gr.)

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Provenance: Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Geneva, 18 May 1992, lot 123.

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Lot Essay

A very similar cup made in The Hague in 1611, the maker's mark a fleur-de-lys, was exhibited The Hague, Haags goud en zilver, 2005 p. 295, fig. 207. A similar English example, gilded and with a plain stem, made in London, 1603, maker's mark CG in monogram, is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, (C. Oman, English Silversmiths Work, London, 1965, no. 34).

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