The first with spreading foot chased with masks, scrolls and fruit trophies, the plain baluster stem with calyx, the tapering bowl engraved with foliate festoons and birds including a stork and an owl, marked on foot rim; the second with domed foot embossed with diaperwork and rosette, baluster stem and octofoil bowl decorated with panels of fruit and foliage, the footrim later engraved 'AZ Kezdi Vauarhelit Sziggarto Géhé Año 1809 dié 2.ma / Maÿ'
6³⁄₈ in. (16.2 cm.); and 6³⁄₄ in. (17.2 cm.) high
4 oz. 11 dwt. (142 gr.); and 6 oz. 16 dwt. (213 gr.)

D. Hawkins, 1 Albany Villas, Hove, Sussex.
D Hawkins; Christie's, London, 10 April 1968, lot 114 (£52), the Seibriger cup, then by descent.
Claud Allen, Ash Pollard, Rockshaw Road, Merstham, Surrey.
Claud Allen; Christie's, London, 21 February 1968, lot 177 (£200), the unmarked cup, then by descent.

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Michaël Seibriger is described in 1663 in the Rezept book of Petrus W. Kecskméti, goldsmith master in Kassa, and former pupil of Seibriger as having worked for 16 years as a journeyman spent time in Germany, England, France and above all in Sweden as Court Goldsmith (probably to Gustav Adolfus) and finally Constantinople.

For the maker's mark see E. Kőszeghy, Magyarországi őtvősjegywk a kőzépkortòl 1867-ig [Goldsmiths’ hallmarks in Hungary from the Middle Ages to 1867], Budapest, 1936; p. 32, no. 189 and p. 44, no. 251.