A LATE 19TH CENTURY GERMAN SILVER CUP, NERESHEIMER & SOHNE c.1890

A LATE 19TH CENTURY GERMAN SILVER CUP, NERESHEIMER & SOHNE c.1890

the antique solid silver cup made in the style of the early 17th Century examples originally made in Augsburg and Nuremberg. Standing on adorned circular foot chased with lobes, the stem shaped as an archer and his young assistant, between foliate calyxes, the cup embossed with large lobes, hallmarked with German Hanau pseudo-marks used by B. Neresheimer & Sohne, Hanau.

In Great Condition - No Damage.

Height: 27.5cm
Width: 10cm
Weight: 395g

From the middle to the end of the nineteenth century copies of old silver and items designed in an amalgamation of historic styles, satisfied customer demand and preference. Many firms in Europe and in the United States produced this type of silver. With the demand for antique style silver in the 19th century, Hanau silversmiths quickly found a market niche, which brought its silver manufacturers enormous prosperity and worldwide reputation. One of the founders of this industry was Neresheimer, founded in 1893 as a partnership of August and Ludwig Neresheimer with Jean Schlingloff. Right from the start Neresheimer offered a wide range of highly decorative objects like neffs, tankards, coconut and nautilus cups, and other sumptuous sideboard pieces.