A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER DOUBLE-BEAKER
AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1690, MAKER'S MARK PROBABLY IR CONJOINED
A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER DOUBLE-BEAKER AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1690, MAKER'S MARK PROBABLY IR CONJOINED Each beaker lobed, the lower body of each engraved with foliage band, the lobes alternately engraved with inscriptions and scrolling foliage, with gilt moulded rims, marked under base of each cup 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high 4 oz. (144 gr.) The inscriptions translate as: 'The Rhine wine is the best one and has the power such that one will be as one drinks. It makes free from care' 'Who wants to be of gay mind and all sparkling, drinks, as its name says, a good Klingenberg wine' 'I praise the old wine as it makes young blood and I strongly believe in the proverb of the drinking friends: old is good' 'The noble Neckar wine is certainly also not a bad one, what lovely always loves the noble lady' 'Who loves the health needs me here, he often drinks a good wine and flees from the evil beer' 'Wine from Spain is highly appreciated, it goes lovely in and warms up what may cool down'
A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER DOUBLE-BEAKER
AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1690, MAKER'S MARK PROBABLY IR CONJOINED
A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER DOUBLE-BEAKER AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1690, MAKER'S MARK PROBABLY IR CONJOINED Each beaker lobed, the lower body of each engraved with foliage band, the lobes alternately engraved with inscriptions and scrolling foliage, with gilt moulded rims, marked under base of each cup 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high 4 oz. (144 gr.) The inscriptions translate as: 'The Rhine wine is the best one and has the power such that one will be as one drinks. It makes free from care' 'Who wants to be of gay mind and all sparkling, drinks, as its name says, a good Klingenberg wine' 'I praise the old wine as it makes young blood and I strongly believe in the proverb of the drinking friends: old is good' 'The noble Neckar wine is certainly also not a bad one, what lovely always loves the noble lady' 'Who loves the health needs me here, he often drinks a good wine and flees from the evil beer' 'Wine from Spain is highly appreciated, it goes lovely in and warms up what may cool down'
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