Lot 162
162
A FINE SPANISH OR SPANISH COLONIAL SILVER-GILT TWO-HANDLED CUP
THE PROPERTY OF A PERUVIAN LADY
A FINE SPANISH OR SPANISH COLONIAL SILVER-GILT TWO-HANDLED CUP

CIRCA 1620

Details
A FINE SPANISH OR SPANISH COLONIAL SILVER-GILT TWO-HANDLED CUP
Circa 1620
Shaped circular, on circular foot with ovolo band, the sides raised into eight lobes, each exterior lobe set with oval boss of blue-green enamel inlaid with silver strapwork, with two beaded scroll handles with dolphin-mask joins, the handles and bosses with prick-engraved strapwork surround with tassel or pendant fruit, the interior with central boss of red and blue enamel, with prick engraved strapwork surround, the handles and foot also with prick-engraving, apparently unmarked
6¼in. (15.9cm.) long over handles; 16oz. 10dwt. (522gr.)

Lot Essay

A cup of related lobed form with a central enamel boss, marked in Bogotá New Granada (now Colombia) was recovered from the 1622 wreck of the Atocha, and was sold at Christie's, New York, April 16, 1999, lot 161.

A chalice marked in Mexico City in 1615 has similar enamel bosses within prick-engraved cartouches (see Cristina Esteras Martín, La platería de la Colección Várez Fisa, 2000, cat. no. 42, illus. pp. 119-121).

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