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A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED NAUTILUS CUP
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED NAUTILUS CUP
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED NAUTILUS CUP
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED NAUTILUS CUP
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A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED NAUTILUS CUP

17TH AND 19TH CENTURY, WITH MARKS RESEMBLING THOSE OF MELCHIOR BAIR, AUGSBURG

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A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED NAUTILUS CUP
17TH AND 19TH CENTURY, WITH MARKS RESEMBLING THOSE OF MELCHIOR BAIR, AUGSBURG
On a domed base chased with sea-monsters in surf, the stem cast as Neptune sitting astride a seahorse atop a sea serpent and holding the nautilus above his head, the side straps cast and chased as caryatids, the back strap cast and chased as a winged caryatids and applied with a lion’s head, the front strap as a double-headed eagle, the rim engraved with nautical creatures, the finial formed as a man seated upon a tortoise, marked on foot-rim
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high
18 oz. 4 dwt. (567 gr.) gross weight
来源
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in Boudoir vert sur la cour, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 2982).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany.
Returned directly from the above to France on 19 October 1945 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
出版
C. Frégnac and W. Andrews, The Great Houses of Paris, London, 1979, p. 79, illustrated in situ, p. 80.

拍品专文

This stem of this nautilus cup is inspired by the numerous designs produced by ornemanists such as Cornelis Floris (1514-1576) active in Antwerp and Paul Flindt (fl.1601- after 1618) active in Nuremberg whose engravings were widely available across Europe and had a lasting impact on goldsmiths. Both engraved fantastical versions of nautilus cups featuring improbable monsters carried or ridden by satyrs and mermaids, all exploring the possibilities of goldsmithing and reflecting a taste for the unusual. Such creativity would last well into the late 19th century when the taste for such nautilus cups persisted with creation by such firms as Koch and Bergfeld in Bremen whose model books included nautilus cups.
Although this cup was probably improved with some 19th century addition such as the sea monster resembling a dragon ridden by the Neptune holding the shell, it also includes some earlier elements notably the finely engraved wide lip typical of 16th and 17th century examples.

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