Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 1 - 25th October 2022 - 25 Oct 2022

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A late 16th century German parcel-gilt silver setzbecher or stacking beaker

£6,000 - £8,000 £9,500

A late 16th century German parcel-gilt silver setzbecher or stacking beaker,

no apparent town or maker's mark, possibly trace of a mark to the inside of the foot rim, circa 1570,

circular form, central girdle, engraved with a silver-gilt border finely engraved with a gentleman holding a candle, a court jester playing a lute in front of a lady and gentleman, a man in a garden scene, two fish within a cloud cartouche, a lady cooking on a fire within a kitchen setting, and a lady working at a table preparing food, with a plain vacant circular cartouche, on a stem pierced with a running stag and a bear in foliate decoration, on a spread circular foot with scenes of a wild boar hunt, the underside with unidentified scratched symbols and scratched 'II' over XIII.L', height 8.5cm, approx. weight 6.5oz.

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