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A German silver-gilt horse cup, Christoph Müller, Breslau, circa 1700

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Realistically modeled with fur chasing, rearing on a base chased and embossed with a tree stump, turtle, frog and insects, marked on the bezel of the head and on the rim of the base with town mark and maker's mark.


20cm, 8in. high

651gr., 20¾oz

The Ludwig Cahn-Speyer Collection, Vienna (before 1906),

with J. Boehler, Munich,

Rita da Costa Lydig, New York,

The American Art Association, New York, 1-3 April, 1913, lot 23,

Martin Birnbaum (1878-1970), New York,

Christie’s, New York, 19 October 2012, lot 73,

bought from S.J. Philips, TEFAF, Maastricht, 2014,

thence by descent

E. Hintze; Die Breslauer Goldschmiede; 1906; p. 121