Design 17/20: Silver, Furniture & Ceramics
Design 17/20: Silver, Furniture & Ceramics
A Continental Parcel-Gilt Silver Standing Cup and Cover (Traubenpokal), Stanislau, 1818
Lot Closed
October 18, 06:02 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Continental Parcel-Gilt Silver Standing Cup and Cover (Traubenpokal), Stanislau, 1818
in early 17th century style, modelled as a bunch of grapes with vase of flowers finial, the vine trunk stem applied with an Indian and two serpents, marked with city and Austro-Hungarian control mark on body, foot, and cover, apparently no maker’s mark
20 oz 10 dwt
637 g
height 15 in.
38.4 cm
Stanislau, now Ivanov-Frankovsk in Western Ukraine, was founded in the 17th century by Hetman Jedrzej Potocki in 1662, was under control of Poland- Lithuania until 1793, then Austro-Hungaria until 1918, and Poland until 1939. Its large Jewish population was decimated by the Nazis in World War II.