Floral decoration was very popular on goldsmiths’ work in the later seventeenth century, culminating with the use of large, swirling blossoms and foliage, as seen on this beaker that is elevated on ball feet. Objects with this form belonged to a standard type and were produced in large quantities throughout Central and Eastern Europe.

Literature
Fine Continental, English and American Silver and Objects of Vertu. Sale cat., Christie’s, New York, March 28, 1979, p. 62, no. 196.
Judit H. Kolba. Hungarian Silver: The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection. London, 1996, p. 94, no. 72.

References
Elemér Kőszeghy. Magyarországi ötvösjegyek a középkortól 1867-ig / Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns vom Mittelalter bis 1867. Budapest, 1936, nos. 1872 [town mark], 1892 [maker’s mark].

[Wolfram Koeppe 2015]