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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 503. A German parcel-gilt silver-mounted turbo shell cup and cover, Straubing, circa 1600,  maker's mark a fleur-de-lis.

A German parcel-gilt silver-mounted turbo shell cup and cover, Straubing, circa 1600, maker's mark a fleur-de-lis

Auction Closed

July 2, 04:40 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The oval base chased with a band of foliage and turtles, swans, snails and snakes, with applied spider, frog and salamander, the upper section similarly decorated, the stem modelled as a mermaid applied with two ruby cabochons, supporting the turbo shell mounted with openwork scrolling bands with caryatid figures, the lip with a frieze of acanthus leaves, the cover with a pointed ovolo border and modelled as a whale swallowing Jonah on a watery ground, the inside set with a plaque engraved with a bird amongst foliage and applied with a coat-of-arms, marked on the lip of the cup and the rim of the foot with town mark and maker's mark.


23.5cm, 9¼in. high

Probably Thomas Dü🦂rnitzel zum Hönhart und der Azelburg, burgomꦬaster of Straubing in 1606,

private collection, Munich, probably since 1928,

thence by descent,

Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 19 December 2005, lot 231,

thence by descent