A RARE LOUIS XVI SILVER-GILT MOUNTED JASPER STANDING CUP, JOHANNES JACOB KIRSTEIN, STRASBOURG, 1787
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November 20, 10:09 PM GMT
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30,000 - 50,000 USD
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A RARE LOUIS XVI SILVER-GILT MOUNTED JASPER STAN🐼DING 💙CUP
JOHANNES JACOB KIRSTEIN, STRASBOURG
1787
the oval pedestal base finely chased with a male and female profile head flanked by cornucopiae from which extend festoons of flowers, fluted stem with acanthus and palm borders, the mottled red stone bowl with straps chased with overlapping pi🌄astres, below an acanthus leaf, the ends applied with satyr masks, the 🎐rim with chased leaf-tips
marked under foot
height 5 5/8 in.
14.2 cm
Sotheby's, Geneva, November 13, 1989, lot 18
Partridge Fine Arts, London
Sotheby's, New York, October 1996, lot 138
Partridge Fine Arts, London
Sotheby's, New York, October 1996, lot 138
John Whitehead, The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century, Dutton Studio Books/Penguin USA, 1993, p. 239, illus.
Charles Truman, ed. Sotheby’s Concise Encyclopedia of Silver, London 1993, p.100, illus.