Live Auction 1546The Raglan Collection: Wellington, Waterloo and The Crimea And Works of Art from the Collection of the Marquesses of Londonderry
A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER BEAKER AND COVER
Lot 455

A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER BEAKER AND COVER

LEIPZIG, UNIDENTIFIED MAKER'S MARK IPS IN OVAL, CIRCA 1680

Closed23 May 2014

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A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER BEAKER AND COVER
LEIPZIG, UNIDENTIFIED MAKER'S MARK IPS IN OVAL, CIRCA 1680
Slightly tapering cylindrical, the body engraved with foliage sprays, acorns and flowers, on three ball feet, each capped with a detachable openwork foliage scroll, the detachable cover with ball finial above a pierced calyx, later-engraved with a presentation inscription below rim and underneath with initials 'H.L.H.V.T.', marked underneath
7.1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) high
11 oz. 16 dwt. (367 gr.)
The later inscription reads, 'PRESENTED TO The Hon'ble Herbert Lionel Vane Tempest BY HIS GODFATHER EDWARD EARL OF POWIS JULY 1871.'

Given by Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis (1818-1891), to his godson, Lord Herbert Lionel Henry Vane-Tempest (1862–1921) and by descent.

Specialist note

There are two parcel-gilt silver pilgrim flasks in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with the same maker's mark and town mark (museum no. 2008.543.19 and 2008.543.20). A two-handled German parcel-gilt silver dish with similarly pierced handles, with the same maker's mark and town mark, was sold Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 9 May 2005, lot 262.