GERMAN, PROBABLY DRESDEN, MID 17TH CENTURY

Details

A PARCEL-GILT CARVED SERPENTINE CUP AND COVER
GERMAN, PROBABLY DRESDEN, MID 17TH CENTURY
Very minor chips and cracks
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Dresden and Copenhagen, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen and Schloss Rosenburg, Mit Fortuna übers Meer - Sachsen und Dänemark - Ehen und Allianzen im Spiegel der Kunst (1548-1709), J. Kappel and C. Brink eds., 24 Aug. 2009 - 4 Jan. 2010 and 13 Feb. - 24 May 2010, p. 218, no. IV.8.

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The present cup and cover relates very closely to another highly comparable piece (now lacking its lid) reputedly gifted by Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony, to the Danish king at a banquet in Copenhagen in 1665 (Kappel and Brink, loc. cit.). This latter cup, now housed in Schloss Rosenburg, Copenhagen, is carved with a similar tapering body and rests on a squat foot with a stylised knop.

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