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Lot Essay
The inscription on the mid band reads:
QUANT DIEU PIERRA IUTANS VERRA
The inscription on the cover reads:
PRENDEES EN GREET
Tall beakers with gothic borders on figural supports are found in northern Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. Several elaborate enamelled examples from Burgundy survive (Carl Hernmarck, The Art of the European Silversmith, 1977, figs. 27 and 28). The base of the present beaker, with its pierced quatrefoil molding on lion-form feet relates to the base of a small altar, Paris, early 14th century, at the Morgan Library, New York (R.W. Lightbown, Secular Goldsmiths' Work in Medieval France, 1978, pl. LIX). The inscriptions on the body and cover of the present beaker are similar to those found on both 14th and 15th century examples (Lightbown, pl. XXIII a-b).
QUANT DIEU PIERRA IUTANS VERRA
The inscription on the cover reads:
PRENDEES EN GREET
Tall beakers with gothic borders on figural supports are found in northern Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. Several elaborate enamelled examples from Burgundy survive (Carl Hernmarck, The Art of the European Silversmith, 1977, figs. 27 and 28). The base of the present beaker, with its pierced quatrefoil molding on lion-form feet relates to the base of a small altar, Paris, early 14th century, at the Morgan Library, New York (R.W. Lightbown, Secular Goldsmiths' Work in Medieval France, 1978, pl. LIX). The inscriptions on the body and cover of the present beaker are similar to those found on both 14th and 15th century examples (Lightbown, pl. XXIII a-b).