AN AUSTRIAN SILVER-GILT, ROCK CRYSTAL AND GEM-SET CUP AND COVER CIRCA 1860
In the Renaissance taste, the square plinth with vari-color enameled scrolling foliage and topped by four dolphins mounted with gems and spaced by enamel flowerheads, the dolphin tails joining in the center to form a knopped stem set with carved intaglios, and supporting the spherical rock crystal cup, the cover mounted with additional carnelian intaglios and with jester finial, apparently unmarked
81⁄4 in. (21 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 June 2007, lot 99 (illus. back cover).
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In the Renaissance taste, the square plinth with vari-color enameled scrolling foliage and topped by four dolphins mounted with gems and spaced by enamel flowerheads, the dolphin tails joining in the center to form a knopped stem set with carved intaglios, and supporting the spherical rock crystal cup, the cover mounted with additional carnelian intaglios and with jester finial, apparently unmarked
81⁄4 in. (21 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 June 2007, lot 99 (illus. back cover).