细节
A PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER-GILT ECUELLES, COVERS AND STANDS
MARK OF (JOHANN) DANIEL I SCHAFFLER, AUGSBURG, 1725
In the French Régence style, engraved with a frieze of scrolls and trelliswork on matted ground and applied with medallions figuring allegories of geography and mathematics on the bodies and allegory of love on the cover and the handles, the cover applied in the center with a medallion depicting Hercules and the dragon Ladon and with four dolphin-shaped resting scrolls, one stand later engraved with initials W.T.Q., each marked on underside of stand, body and border of cover, one with later Austro-Hungarian control marks for Vienna, 1806
9 1⁄16 in. (23 cm.) diameter, the stands
61 oz. 6dwt. (1,908 gr.)