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 cup. The lower part is decorated with double profile lines, adorned with a convex relief tongue with fine stippled, alternating leaf ornamentation and crowned with stylized diamond-shaped leaves. The interior is gilded. Made, signed, with a trembling stroke, by master Mattheus 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 vol. II 1980, fig. 376 (decoration and form), also Rosenberg, vol. IV, no. 6458. German Baroque, partially gilded silver goblet by Mattheus II Baur (master since 1681). Interior gilded. Marking, assay and master's mark, as well as French tax stamp (1687-1691). German. Augsburg. 1689-1692.