Lot 341
GOLD AND ENAMEL MOUNTED MINIATURE ROCK CRYSTAL CUP AND COVER
FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY, GERMAN OR SCANDINAVIAN
Auction: Five Centuries Day Two | Thurs 10th September | Lots 256 to 507
Description
the domed faceted cover with a blue and green enamelled ball finial, the underside of the cover with an enamel mount bearing entwined monogram ‘SHVA’ enclosed by a laurel wreath and surmounted by a red coronet, the reverse in red enamel, on a faceted tapering body with stem and applied wavy foot enamelled in blue and green; unmarked
Dimensions
5.5cm high
Provenance
Sir Julius Wernher, 1st Bt. (1850-1912) Bath House, London, no. 606, but not mentioned in the 1913 Bath House Inventory, which skips from no. 604 to no. 607, by whom bequeathed, with a life interest to his widow, Alice, Lady Wernher, subsequently Lady Ludlow (1862-1945), to their son,
Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt. G.C.V.O. (1893-1973), Bath House, London, and from 1948 Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, and by descent.
Christie's, London, Works of Art from the Wernher Collection, 5 July 2000, lot 28