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 bottom is trimmed with double profile lines, decorated with a convex relief tongue with fine dot-punched, alternating leaf ornamentation and crowned with stylized diamond-shaped leaves. Gilded on the inside. Made, signed, with a tremulous 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 silver collection of Werner Hauger, Baden-Baden. See Seling 2007, no. 1776, BZ 0950 ill.; here vol. II 1980, fig. 376 (decoration and form), as well as Rosenberg, vol. IV, no. 6458. German Baroque, partially gilded silver cup by Matthäus II Baur (master since 1681). Gilded on the inside. Marking, hallmark, and master’s mark, as well as French tax stamp (1687-1691). German. Augsburg. 1689-1692.