On this beaker, bold auricular scrolls form cartouches with bundles of foliage and fruits. It seems that the goldsmith intended the points where the scrolls meet to evoke a grotesque mask, with punched pyramidal eyebrows above the nostrils, and an open, heart-shaped mouth from which a leaf-shaped tongue emerges.

Literature
Important English and Continental Silver. Sale cat., Sotheby’s, New York, April 16, 1997, p. 60, no. 122. (Unidentified maker’s mark P.?; perhaps similar to Elemér Kőszeghy. Magyarországi ötvösjegyek a középkortól 1867-ig / Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns vom Mittelalter bis 1867. Budapest, 1936, no. 878.)

[Wolfram Koeppe 2015]