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 PAIR OF BOTTLES

“Tk PAIR of large oval bottles, of embossed and pierced silver, with gilt copper mounts,
/ \ surmounted by a figure of the young Bacchus and with two large masks of the
/ % young Bacchus at the sides. The glass is enclosed in silver, embossed and pierced
A with flowers, scrolls, grotesque masks, and terminal figures. It has been engraved
at a later date with the initials DFB'. Two silver chains are affixed to the bottles.
German, circa 1700.
Height, 49 cm.

AN IVORY TANKARD, MOUNTED IN SILVER GILT

CARVED on the body are Neptune and Amphitrite.
Mark: the mark of Nuremberg and the mark of Johann Jacob Wolrab (1633-1690),
the maker of mechanical figures for Louis XIV and other monarchs (N° 3236 in
Rosenberg’s Der Goldschmiede Merkzeiche?i, 2nd edition, 1911).
A large fruit stand by the same maker is illustrated in E. Alfred Jones’s privately-printed cata-
logue of Mr Leopold de Rothschild’s collection, plate XXXIV, 1907.

A LARGE OCTAGONAL PLAQUE, SILVER

EMBOSSED in high relief is a mythological subject, covering the plaque.
Length, 46 cm. 5; width, 35 cm.
Marks: the pine-cone of Augsburg and the maker’s mark, ib in an oval cartouche (N°
406 in Rosenberg’s Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen^ 2nd edition, 1911).
German (Augsburg), circa 1685.

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