Jones, Edward Alfred: A catalogue of the objects in gold & silver and the Limoges enamels in the collection of the Baroness James de Rothschild (London, 1912)

A CUP AND COVER OF CRYSTAL AND SILVER GILT

SURMOUNTING the crystal cover is a seated lion, holding a shield, which is engraved
with the arms of the Bavarian noble family of Marquard von Adelzhoven, and inscribed
marqvard von adelzhoven, 1643. The plain crystal is divided into eight sections. The
border of the cover is decorated with oval panels, separated by grotesque masks, and the
edge with large ovolo-work. The lip of the cup is plain and curved. Above and below the crystal
body, which is facetted into Vandykes, is a wide rounded band composed of four masks in high
relief, alternating with four plain bosses, and festoons of flowers and scrolls. The crystal stem
is enclosed at each end in foliage, as is also the top of the octagonal crystal base, the silver-gilt
edge of which is decorated with acanthus leaves in relief.
This cup is illustrated in Luthmer’s catalogue of the late baron Carl von Rothschild’s colle&ion,
Vol. I, plate 1 3.
Height, 30 cm. 5.
Marks: the mark of Nuremberg and the mark of the maker, Jacob Frohlich, who was master
in 1555^ 0 (N° 3113 in Rosenberg’s Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, 2nd edition, 1911).
German (Nuremberg) last quarter of the sixteenth century.
Plate XIV.
A fine cup by Jacob Frohlich is in the possession of the Broderers company of London.

Page 2 6

Plate XIV