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A SILVER-GILT BALUSTER TANKARD
by Johann Myllys (Goldberg 1585), St. Petersburg, 1862, assaymaster Eduard Brandenburg
On plain stepped and spreading circular foot, the body chased with scrolling foliage panelling fields of flowered trelliswork and a vacant oval, bordered above and below with beaded bands, the scroll handle with continued beading, the hinged cover domed and chased with foliage and beading, with split-scroll thumb-piece and applied with figural finial - 19.5cm high (530gr)
by Johann Myllys (Goldberg 1585), St. Petersburg, 1862, assaymaster Eduard Brandenburg
On plain stepped and spreading circular foot, the body chased with scrolling foliage panelling fields of flowered trelliswork and a vacant oval, bordered above and below with beaded bands, the scroll handle with continued beading, the hinged cover domed and chased with foliage and beading, with split-scroll thumb-piece and applied with figural finial - 19.5cm high (530gr)