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A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT GOBLET
Lot 121

A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT GOBLET

TRANSYLVANIA, MID 17TH CENTURY

Closed17 May 2011

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USD 10,000

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A HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT GOBLET
TRANSYLVANIA, MID 17TH CENTURY
On spreading circular trumpet foot flat-chased with band of auricular scrolls on a matted ground, surmounted by a fluted band rising to a lobed stem with three fully-modeled stag's heads supporting the lobed and fluted cup, the cup chased and repoussé with arabesque panels enclosing fruit, flowers and putti heads on a matted ground, apparently unmarked
7¾ in. (19.8 cm.) high; 7 oz. 10 dwt. (246 gr.)

Formerly in the Calvinist Church in Korlát, Hungary

Specialist note

A very similar lobed goblet is in the collection of the Museum of Applied Art, Budapest (Inv. no. 55.69.C). It bears the maker's mark of Stephanus Pip (alias Zimmerman), Brassó, 1652-1689 (see Baroque Splendor: The Art of the Hungarian Goldsmith, 1994, illus. no. 46, p. 119).