Manual bowl

Silver, partially gilded. Oval body with eight curving branches. Smooth mirror with relief plastic decoration and delicately punched bundles of fruit. Rising wavy rim with relief decoration in the form of the letter "C" and marine motifs. With two lateral volute-shaped handles. Signature, trembling stroke, hallmarks, master Hans III Petrus (became a master around 1621), French remelting mark, Paris. Weight approximately 105 g. Height 3.7 cm. Dimensions 12.7 cm x 14.3 cm. See Seling 2007, number 1360, BZ 0460; Rosenberg, vol. IV, number 6614. German Baroque gilded hand bowl made by Hans III Petrus (master since around 1621). Test mark, assay mark, and master's mark. French mark. German. Augsburg. Circa 1634–1635.