ribbed into panels and engraved with a band of Regence ornament, the slightly-domed cover similarly ribbed and applied with stylised bud finial, on a gadrooned shaped oval foot

Fraysse & Associes, Paris, 7 December 2011, lot 52

Maker's mark rubbed but legible, town mark clear. Nice gauge. Possible re-attachment of finial. Gilding generally good with silver showing through to some high-points.
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Jean-Jacques Ehrlen, the son of a pastor, was born in 1700. He became a master goldsmith in 1728 and married the same year. In 1758, his daughter, Marie-Salome, married goldsmith Jean-Christian Zahrt, who took over Ehrlen’s workshop after his death in 1781.

Until around 1720 Strasbourg silversmiths produced tapering cylindrical beakers in the German fashion. After this date they adopted the Parisian 'tulip' model, adapting it with ribbed panels to form the Strasbourg type. Haug suggests that Ehrlen was one of the first to produce this type (see introduction to the Paris 1964 exhibition, p.20).

For a similar beaker by the same maker see Hans Haug, L'Orfevrerie de Strasbourg, Paris, 1978, pg. 74.