Shell-shaped salière with scrolls on either side on three dolphin supports. H 3.1; W 6.4; D without scrolls 5.5 cm, weight 31 g.
Maker’s mark with a wheel, around 1650 – 1659.
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Silver, gilt. Equipped with a mast, a billowing sail high above, a lance-shaped staff with a pennant, four warriors on the quarterdeck and two heavy guns, on a high-arched base, driven by dolphins in the water. The underside is engraved with Cyrillic inscriptions, a proof mark (1609-1629) and a master’s mark, as well as a tremolo engraving on the ship, and a master’s mark on the base. A control mark is on the pennant.
A very similar cup is in the collection of the Kremlin Armory in Moscow. Described and illustrated under no. 41 of
A. Markova, German Silver Art of the 16th – 18th Centuries, 1975.