Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 24th April 2018
Lot 352
A seventeenth century Dutch silver wine cup
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £8200
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Description
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.