Lot 194. Large vermeil cup and lid with decorations in relief, Juryen van Ham, Emden, 1603. Approximately 594g. Height 38cm. Estimate 25,000 - 30,000 EUR. Lot sold 48,000 EUR. © Van Ham

Silver, applies. Repeatedly receeding circular foot with bulbous raised center, thereon a shaft in the shape of a vase with three small applied scroll motifs decorated with mascarons. The high cuppa cylindrically waisted in the middle. On the bulbous upper and lower parts ornamental bands with strapwork panels, in them alternating cherub heads and bowls of fruit and flowers. The waisted middle is decorated with an arrangement of fruit. Flat-domed slip lid with a broad rim and matching décor. Large figure of a supporter in armor as final on the base-shaped center. 

Marked thrice: assayer's mark Emden with C for 1603 (Scheffler, Lower Saxony no.592), maker's mark Juryen van Ham (master 1597-1616, ibid. No.599). Condition A / B. 

Provenance: Friedrich Wilhelm Waffenschmidt Collection, Cologne. 

Note: Another cup and lid is from the surviving works of the silversmith, it is kept in the town hall of Emden.