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Silversmith: Emmerling, Nicolaus
Silver-gilt; the waisted cup and cover embossed with strapwork panels containing fruit and foliage
Silver-gilt: the stepped spreading circular foot has an embossed and chased border of strapwork containing fruit and foliage. Thel plain column stem has three applied scrolls and, at the base and top, a calyx of cut silver leaves. The bowl is waised and embossed with three wide borders of strapwork fruit and foliage. The slightly domed cover has a flat border of gadroons round the rim; then a raised border of embossed and chased strapwork fruit and foliage round a silver calyx of scrolls. The silver finial is formed as a vase of flowers.
History note: Not known before testator
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 23.2 cm
Height: 9⅛ in
Weight: 241 g
Weight: 7 : 15 oz : dwt
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
16th Century, Late-17th Century, Early#
Production date:
circa
AD 1600
Nicolaus Emmerling flourished from 1587 to 1606
Surface
composed of
gold
Across Rim
Diameter 8.6 cm
Diameter 3⅜ in
Base
Diameter 8 cm
Diameter 3⅛ in
Bowl
Decoration
Scrolls On Stem
Inscription present: possibly ⅛
Accession number: MAR.M.48 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 137663
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Cup and cover" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/137663 Accessed: 2024-12-23 01:12:42
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