Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 24 Apr 2018
A seventeenth century Dutch silver wine cup
A seventeenth century Dutch silver wine cup,
maker's mark of three dots in a square punch, possibly a clover, unidentified, Middelburg, possibly 1636, also marked with later tax marks,
the circular bowl with punch-bead, star and foliate decoration, the stem with three pierced scrolls with mythical beast heads, on a raised circular foot with chased decoration, the border heavily engraved with later presentation inscriptions, height 12.1cm, approx. weight 4oz.