A VIENNA-STYLE THREE-HANDLED LOVING-CUP, the shaped cylindrical body with a burnished gilt interior, the exterior printed and painted with a continuous frieze of mythological figures at various pursuits in landscapes, between slender seeded gilt bands and dark-blue borders enriched with gilt lovers' and musical trophies flanked by panels of diaper-pattern, husks, and vases of flowers, the gilt scroll handles with leaf terminals, on three paw feet (wear to gilding), blue beehive mark, iron-red script, circa 1900

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A VIENNA-STYLE THREE-HANDLED LOVING-CUP, the shaped cylindrical body with a burnished gilt interior, the exterior printed and painted with a continuous frieze of mythological figures at various pursuits in landscapes, between slender seeded gilt bands and dark-blue borders enriched with gilt lovers' and musical trophies flanked by panels of diaper-pattern, husks, and vases of flowers, the gilt scroll handles with leaf terminals, on three paw feet (wear to gilding), blue beehive mark, iron-red script, circa 1900
7½in. (19.5cm.) high

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