Silver-Gilt German Drinking Bowl with Engraving
This silver gilt drinking bowl was made in Augbsurg (Germany) in the early seventeenth century by the maker Adam Forster. It has a wonderful engraving....
This silver gilt drinking bowl was made in Augbsurg (Germany) in the early seventeenth century by the maker Adam Forster. It has a wonderful engraving....
The present beaker with a lid shows an elaborated and very detailed artwork. It is entirely gilt and adorned with deep and fine engraving showing architectural settings. It has been made in Augsburg 1697/99 by the master maker Johann Christoph I Treffler....
The beaker presents a typical form for the German baroque period made in Augsburg, 1697/99. The maker is Johann Jakob Petrus....
Antique silver sugar caster made in Hannover c. 1730/40 of unusually heavy quality. Very nice shape and condition. From the property of the house von Schilden. Maker: Bernhard Hinrich Corthnum....
In the early eighteenth century, French snuff boxes (tabatières) made of gold and enamel or of other precious materials, were quite fashionably in Germany. Boxes, namely snuff boxes, which are decorated like this present one, are usually attributed to the workshop of the Huguenot Pierre...
The decoration of the snuff box is faithful to the rococo style. One could think that this enamel box was taken when hunting, due to the animal décor it shows....
This antique silver caster is a very fine object, typical for the first half of the eighteenth century. It was made in London (1733) by Thomas Farren....
This is a silver-gilt wine beaker (goblet), made in Nuremberg in the first half of 17th century. Due to its special shape it belongs to the so called "Roemer" type. Maker: Thomas Stoer II....
This silver partly-gilt snuff box has a rectangular form and shows typical Rococo ornamentation. Made in Potsdam c. 1770 by Chr. Fr. Müller....
This antique silver-gilt (vermeil) beaker is a very elaborated example of French silver from the end of the eighteenth century (Paris). The gilding and engraving are excellent....