German coconut cup tankard

An image of Coconut cup tankard. Unknown, silversmith, Germany. The low domed foot is embossed with a border of round and oval cartouches and fruit on a matted ground. The short stem has three flat scroll brackets supporting the pierced calyx which holds the coconut cup. The cup is held by three hinged straps in the form of caryatids holding shells aloft. The rim of the coconut is held by a broad band of ornate embossed and chased gadroons. Above this is a broad rim embossed and chased with strapwork and fruit. The slightly domed cover is similarly decorated and has an urn-shaped finial. The hollow D-section scroll handle has a shield-shaped terminal and a thumbpiece cast as a boy sitting on a U-shaped bar. The cover is engraved with the initials 'TF' with a beaker between, over 'AF'. Coconut and silver-gilt, raised, cast and soldered; the decoration embossed, chased, pierced and engraved. Height, to top of finial, 24.8 cm, diameter, base, 11 cm, width, overall, 15.2 cm, circa 1600-circa 1650. Production Note: The mounts only bear a later import mark. There is not a maker's mark or town mark.

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Coconut cup tankard. Unknown, silversmith, Germany. The low domed foot is embossed with a border of round and oval cartouches and fruit on a matted ground. The short stem has three flat scroll brackets supporting the pierced calyx which holds the coconut cup. The cup is held by three hinged straps in the form of caryatids holding shells aloft. The rim of the coconut is held by a broad band of ornate embossed and chased gadroons. Above this is a broad rim embossed and chased with strapwork and fruit. The slightly domed cover is similarly decorated and has an urn-shaped finial. The hollow D-section scroll handle has a shield-shaped terminal and a thumbpiece cast as a boy sitting on a U-shaped bar. The cover is engraved with the initials 'TF' with a beaker between, over 'AF'. Coconut and silver-gilt, raised, cast and soldered; the decoration embossed, chased, pierced and engraved. Height, to top of finial, 24.8 cm, diameter, base, 11 cm, width, overall, 15.2 cm, circa 1600-circa 1650. Production Note: The mounts only bear a later import mark. There is not a maker's mark or town mark.

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Accession Number: MAR.M.59-1912
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1536 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
Filesize: 158.80kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2007:10:03 11:08:04

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17th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC boys calyx cartouche cartouches caryatids cast chased coconut shell cover covered cup covered tankard cup drinking vessel embossed engraved finial Fitz_AA fruits gadroons German gilded gilding gilt handle handled knop lidded pierced raised shells silver silver-gilt silverware standing cup strapwork tankard thumb-piece thumbpiece

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