TWO GERMAN SILVER-GILT AND PAINTED ENAMEL SMALL CUPS
TWO GERMAN SILVER-GILT AND PAINTED ENAMEL SMALL CUPS
TWO GERMAN SILVER-GILT AND PAINTED ENAMEL SMALL CUPS
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TWO GERMAN SILVER-GILT AND PAINTED ENAMEL SMALL CUPS

PROBABLY AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1710-1720

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TWO GERMAN SILVER-GILT AND PAINTED ENAMEL SMALL CUPS
PROBABLY AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1710-1720
Both cylindrical on a ring foot, the body painted with putti in various bucolic scenes, including farming, shearing sheep, butchering pigs, and music making all representing the seasons and within cartouches bordered by ribbon tied flowers, apparently unmarked
2 ¼ in. (5.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired from S.J. Phillips Ltd., London, June 2005.
Literature
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 46, pp. 198-199.

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