Lot Essay
The inscripion around the rim reads "ZVM.DRVNCK.BIN.ICH.GERICHT.DER.MICH.DVRCH.VIL.AVSDRINCKIEN.ANFICHT+ LAN.DER.MEIN.NIT.WIL.DER.LAS.MICH.STANDEN.GIB.ICH.BILLICHEN.VERDIENTN."
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A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED COCONUT CUP
no apparent marks, 17th Century (?)
On circular foot cast with fruit and strapwork scrolls, the fluted tapering centre with gadrooned knop above, with further gadrooned urn-shaped centre with three plain scrolls, the coconut mounted with vertical bands surmounted with lions masks to the foliate-cut rim, the extending upper rim engraved with German inscription, the cover with foliate-cut and gadrooned rim mount and applied with a falcon-shaped finial pirched on foliage - 24cm high
no apparent marks, 17th Century (?)
On circular foot cast with fruit and strapwork scrolls, the fluted tapering centre with gadrooned knop above, with further gadrooned urn-shaped centre with three plain scrolls, the coconut mounted with vertical bands surmounted with lions masks to the foliate-cut rim, the extending upper rim engraved with German inscription, the cover with foliate-cut and gadrooned rim mount and applied with a falcon-shaped finial pirched on foliage - 24cm high