A SWISS SILVER-GILT MOUNTED WOOD BEAKER

DATED 1529

Details
A SWISS SILVER-GILT MOUNTED WOOD BEAKER
dated 1529
Tapering cylindrical, the wood body on moulded rim foot, with reeded hoop around the centre, the rim mount with scalloped lower border and engraved with dolphins and scrolling foliage, the date 1529, coat-of-arms and initials FVL in shaped cartouche, marked with later 1806 Leibach control mark
8.3 cm. (3½ in.) high
Provenance
Gedon collection
J. Bossard, Luzern, Galerie Helbing, Münich, 1911, pt. II, lot 60.

Further details
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