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Double cup
silver-gilt
c. 1510
37.3 cm height
Heraldry:: later (19th century?) enamelled arms; (top and bottom)
Inscription/Mark: '511-656' (Old inventory number, painted on the base; Wernher?)
Inscription/Mark (several very small importmarks)
Inscription/Mark: reverse 'N' (Rosenberg 3712) (struck on the foot)
Provenance: c. 1890 Frederic Spitzer, Paris; Sir Julius Wernher (1850-1912), Bath House, London; Sir Harold Wernher (1893-1973); Wernher sale, Christie's London, 5 July 2000 (Sale 6293, lot 50)
Place of Creation: Nuremberg
WA2013.1.18
Silver-gilt double-cup, embossed and crested. Around the rim of the lower part a band of engraving scrollwork with dogs and birds.
Literature: Heinrich Kohlhaussen, N
Bequeathed by Michael Wellby, 2012.