A CONTINENTAL SILVER-GILT, ENAMEL, AND GEM-MOUNTED ROCK CRYSTAL ROC-FORM CUP AND COVER
Lot 348

A CONTINENTAL SILVER-GILT, ENAMEL, AND GEM-MOUNTED ROCK CRYSTAL ROC-FORM CUP AND COVER

PROBABLY AUSTRIA, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Fermé20 October 2021

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A CONTINENTAL SILVER-GILT, ENAMEL, AND GEM-MOUNTED ROCK CRYSTAL ROC-FORM CUP AND COVER
PROBABLY AUSTRIA, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The rock crystal body carved as a standing mythical bird, its back as a lift off cover with cylindrical handle, the silver-gilt mounts applied with variously colored gems centering enamel flowers, apparently unmarked
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high

Note du spécialiste

A similar Austrian silver-gilt mounted rock crystal cup by Hermann Ratzersdorfer, circa 1875, was sold as the Property of a Family Trust Collected by the American Wife of an English Aristocrat on her Continental Tours in the Last Decade of the 19th Century, Christie's, London, 25 November 2008, lot 72. Another example, circa 1870, was sold Christie's, London, 7 June 2016, lot 181.