Lot 54
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TWO GERMAN SILVER-GILT, COPPER AND ENAMEL LIQUOR CUPS
TWO GERMAN SILVER-GILT, COPPER AND ENAMEL LIQUOR CUPS
TWO GERMAN SILVER-GILT, COPPER AND ENAMEL LIQUOR CUPS
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TWO GERMAN SILVER-GILT, COPPER AND ENAMEL LIQUOR CUPS

PROBABLY AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1710-1720

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TWO GERMAN SILVER-GILT, COPPER AND ENAMEL LIQUOR CUPS
PROBABLY AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1710-1720
The small vase-shaped cups raised domed bases chased with a band of leaf-tips, the bowls each painted with three female portrait busts in ancient Roman costume, within roundels linked by ribbons and scrolls in pink and yellow within against a dark brown ground, apparently unmarked
2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired from S.J. Phillips Ltd., London, 27 June 2005.
Literature
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 45, pp. 196-197.

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Lot Essay

Cups such as these were usually produced as part of larger liquor services, which would have included six cups, and flask, and a salver. A complete service, mark of Elias Adams 1712-1715, with cups of identical form is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

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