Lot 766. A South German turned ivory cup, 17th century; height 9 3/8 in. 23.8 cm. Estimate 30,000 — 50,000 USD. Lot sold 170,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's

the conical hexalobe base below a ring of upturned foliate openwork surrounding two horizontal florette-form discs rising to a gadrooned baluster-form stem, the knop interrupted by a recessed band, with two smaller florette-form discs above, rising to a ring of inverted foliate points below the gradually flaring hexalobe gadrooned cup in three registers punctuated by narrow bands. 

Provenance: Sotheby's London, July 8, 1993, lot 206

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