Lot Essay
This maker's mark appears on a beaker illustrated in Carl Ehrnrooth, ed., Silver Treasures from Livonia, Estonia and Courland, exhibition catalogue, Stockholm and Helsinki, 1991, no. 96.
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A BALTIC SILVER TANKARD
NARVA, CIRCA 1680, MAKER'S MARK OF GERD VON HAVEN I
Of cylindrical form on four foliate ball feet headed by scrolling acanthus leaves, with tubular scroll handle with similar foliate decoration and ball thumbpiece, the hinged cover applied with a circular plaque chased with a coat-of-arms, helm and crest within foliate scroll mantling and flanked by the initials WR within a tied laurel border, marked under base and with scratch weight 36=10--7 1/8in. (18.1cm.) high
(34 oz.)
NARVA, CIRCA 1680, MAKER'S MARK OF GERD VON HAVEN I
Of cylindrical form on four foliate ball feet headed by scrolling acanthus leaves, with tubular scroll handle with similar foliate decoration and ball thumbpiece, the hinged cover applied with a circular plaque chased with a coat-of-arms, helm and crest within foliate scroll mantling and flanked by the initials WR within a tied laurel border, marked under base and with scratch weight 36=10--7 1/8in. (18.1cm.) high
(34 oz.)