Little Baroque footbecker

Silver, fully gilded. A round convex base transitions into a short, deeply indented stem and a widely flaring, slightly conical smooth cup. The base and the bottom of the cup are framed with tongue-shaped gadroons. Below the wide border area, decorated with relief volute-shaped vegetal patterns, the interior is gilded. Workshop, master Johann Philipp Gross (became a master in 1689), Austrian mark, Vienna before 1824. Weight about 110 grams. Height 6.5 cm. See Seling 2007, number 1300, 1838; Lanz/Schmid/Strachalm, Silver of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, p. 20; see also Overzier, German Silver, p. 49, fig. 52 (form and decor). A small German Baroque silver gilt beaker made by Johann Philipp Gross (master since 1689). Mark and workshop, Austrian mark, Vienna before 1824. German. Augsburg. Circa 1713–1717.