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Description A Continental silver Historismus cup and cover on stand, unidentified B and Anchor maker, probably German, mid 19th century
the lobed spherical body with soldier finial, his shield inscribed Capitulum Lundense 1596 on a lobed circular foot similarly embossed, the stand embossed with graduated bosses, unmarked, possibly associated
38cm. high
1049gr, 33oz 14dwt
Condition Report Some dents, gilt interior of the cup, general condition good.
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Provenance Possibly Helena Regina Frederica von Brunningen Lady Brabourne (1860-1919)
Notes The inscription relates to the Cathedral Chapter of the Danish city of Lund. In 1596 at the coronation of Christian IV, the Lund Chapter presented their new king with a cup made by the Hamburg goldsmith Herman von Bordesloe, which like the present item was inscribed
Capitulum Lundense 1596.?The Danish crown was forced to sell the cup to pay reparations during The 30-Years-War and it eventually became the property of Michael I, the first Romanov Csar of Russia, who was born in 1596. The cup was reproduced in Feodor Solntsev's,?
Drevnosti rossiiskogo gosudarstva?[Antiquities of the Russian State]?
1849-1853?in volume 5, plates 19-20. This monumental edition was commissioned by Tsar Nicholas I to document domestic, clerical and royal treasures and became a source of inspiration for 19th century silversmiths including the B and anchor maker. This well known but unidentified goldsmith, was working it is thought around the middle of the 19th century