The waisted body chased with alternating fluting and gadroons with lobes above and below, the low domed cover with lobed rim, the finial as a fully modeled putto holding aloft a wreath and standing on a plinth applied with scroll brackets, all raised on a knopped stem applied with scrolls and on a lobed and gadrooned foot, marked on foot rim and top of cover, further marked with later French tax mark
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high
18 oz. 10 dwt. (575.4 gr.)

Acquired from S.J. Phillips Ltd., London, September 1977.

T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 20, pp. 124-125.

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The maker's mark found on the present cup and cover is in the form of a merchant's mark, which is an almost heraldic-like device used to signify a specific individual or family, and which were used as maker's marks in 16th century Ulm. Marc Rosenberg notes that the present mark, which he lists as no. 4758 in Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, N-Z, Frankfurt, 1925, p. 345, can also be found on a set of twelve stacking cups with a figural frieze along the top which he lists as in the Reiche Kappelle, Residenz München.