Lot 197. Silver columbine cup, Franz Doth, Nuremberg, ca. 1600. Height 31.5cm. Estimate 12,000 - 14,000 EUR. Lot sold 14,000 EUR. © Van Ham

Silver, parcel-gilt and gilt interior. On circular, slightly domed foot with rising middle, two rows of staggered, trumpet-shaped bumps. On chased ruffled decorations a small baluster shaft, on it a slightly flared cuppa with fine decorations of flowers and scrolls on punched ground in between two rows of bumps. The slip lid with protruding rim decorated similarly and with high flower finial. 

No assayer's mark, maker's mark on cuppa Franz Doth (active 1592 - 1619 (?), GNM no.168b). Condition A/B.  

Provenance: Friedrich Wilhelm Waffenschmidt Collection, Cologne.

Note: Other pieces by this silversmith are in important collections such as the Hermitage in St Petersburg, the armory of the Kremlin, or the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.