Silver cup

Silver, partially gilded. On a plane surrounded by narrow profile lines and a rounded circular base rises a tall, slightly swaying, bell-shaped dome. The lower part is decorated with double profile lines, adorned with a convex relief tongue with fine stippling, alternating leaf decor, and crowned with stylized diamond-shaped leaves. The interior is gilded. Made, signed, with a trembling stroke, by master Matthäus II Baur (master since 1681) and with the tenant’s mark for Paris (1687-1691). Weight approx. 95 g. Height 8 cm. Provenance: from the Werner Hauger silver collection, Baden-Baden. See Seling 2007, No. 1776, BZ 0950 ill.; here Volume II 1980, fig. 376 (decor and form), as well as Rosenberg, Volume IV, No. 6458. German Baroque, partially gilded silver goblet by Matthäus II Baur (master since 1681). Interior gilded. Markings, hallmark, and master’s mark, as well as French tax stamp (1687-1691). German. Augsburg. 1689-1692.