A Dutch silver guild shield
A Dutch silver guild shield

MAKER'S MARK OF JAN VAN GIFFEN, GRONINGEN, CIRCA 1780

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A Dutch silver guild shield
Maker's mark of Jan van Giffen, Groningen, circa 1780
Shaped oblong, the chased border decorated with scrolls and a crown enclosing a chased Dutch sailing boat above an ornament inscribed Pieter Harms Buirals Older./Berent Hindriks en Fridrik/Jans Hovelingen/1780
12cm. high
marked right in decoration
60gr.

Lot Essay

A virtually identical guild shield by the same maker was sold at Sotheby's Amsterdam, 25 May 1998, lot 541 (NLG 74.400).

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