A GERMAN SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER

A GERMAN SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, 19TH CENTURY WITH 15TH CENTURY ELEMENTS
On tripod base pierced with quatrefoils and applied with three standing soldiers, holding lance and shield, supporting the cup mount applied with stylised gothic foliages and branches, the trumpet-shaped plain beaker cast with a geometric rim, the detachable coronet-shaped cover with baluster stem with figure finial and foliate calyx
22 ¾ in. (58 cm.) high
93 oz. 15 dwt. (2,917 gr.)

Provenance
E. Alfred Jones, Catalogue of the Plate belonging to the Duke of Portland, K.G, G.C.V.O at Welbeck Abbey, London, 1935, p.12.