Nautilus cup, anonymous, c. 1630 - c. 1660 Nautilus cup in frame of gilded silver. There are mermaids on the corners of the three -hand pedestal. The head of a dolphin is visible under their winding double tails. In their hands they keep the loose ends from over their shoulder and over their heads, which is connected on the sides, above a frats. There is a naked female figure on this pedestal, a cloth is folded around its loins. With head and hands, she supports a leaf rosette on which the shell rests and to which clamps are attached, and awarded by a nereïd and a triton respectively. Amsterda
Nautilus cup, anonymous, c. 1630 - c. 1660 Nautilus cup in frame of gilded silver. There are mermaids on the corners of the three -hand pedestal. The head of a dolphin is visible under their winding double tails. In their hands they keep the loose ends from over their shoulder and over their heads, which is connected on the sides, above a frats. There is a naked female figure on this pedestal, a cloth is folded around its loins. With head and hands, she supports a leaf rosette on which the shell rests and to which clamps are attached, and awarded by a nereïd and a triton respectively. Amsterdam (possibly) silver (metal). nautilus shell gilding Nautilus cup in frame of gilded silver. There are mermaids on the corners of the three -hand pedestal. The head of a dolphin is visible under their winding double tails. In their hands they keep the loose ends from over their shoulder and over their heads, which is connected on the sides, above a frats. There is a naked female figure on this pedestal, a cloth is folded around its loins. With head and hands, she supports a leaf rosette on which the shell rests and to which clamps are attached, and awarded by a nereïd and a triton respectively. Amsterdam (possibly) silver (metal). nautilus shell gilding
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