Beschreibung:

A small, 17th century Swiss engraved silver-gilt tankard of tapering cylindrical form with a cushion domed foot, a domed cover, a volute thumbpiece and a pomegranate finial, the c-scroll handle engraved with hatching and overlapping leaf motifs, the cover engraved with arabesque scrolls and the inscription 'ANNO 1664, SABINA KROMPPEININ GEBOHRNE WELLINGIN'; the inside of the cover with an engraved coat of arms, the body engraved all over with formal scrollwork, a central mask and floral sprays punctuated with fruit, flowering scrolls, flowerheads and a rabbit, below the inscription 'PSALM-N9.V.72 DASGESETZ: DEINES MUNDES.IST.MIR.LIEBER.DANVIL.DAUSENT.STICK.GOLD.UND.SILBER'; marked on the cover and base with maker's mark LD; town mark a quartered shield below an antler in a shaped punch, unascribed, probably made in the vicinity of Wettingen, c. 1664 - 16cm high, 12.25oz.