Drinking bowl with allegories of pure and impure love, Drinking bowl on foot, completely gilded. A balustrade stem rises from a curved foot with a raised center, carrying the round dish with a loose cover plate. In the bowl, surrounded by a leaf wreath, a driven relief in which pure and impure love are allegorically represented (see below). Various hunting representations are engraved on the edge. On the cover plate, in gear, masks on rolling cartouches between fruit bunches. For the nodus and for the sections above and below, three free-standing volutes. Fruit festivities and lion masks in relief on the nodus. The curve of the profiled foot, surrounded by three godron frames and closed off at the top by a ribbed hemisphere, is adorned with four reclining female figures between cherubs and leaf garlands, ornaments, art, Matthias Molckman (attributed to), Middelburg, 1595, silver (metal), gilding, h 20 cm × d 22 cm d 18 cm
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Drinking bowl, allegories, pure, impure love, foot, completely gilded, balustrade stem rises, curved foot, raised center, carrying, round dish, loose cover plate, bowl, surrounded, leaf wreath, driven relief, allegorically represented, see, Various hunting representations, engraved, edge, cover plate, gear, masks, rolling cartouches, fruit bunches, nodus, sections, three free-standing volutes, Fruit festivities, lion masks, relief, curve, profiled foot, three godron frames, closed off, top, ribbed hemisphere, adorned, four reclining female figures, cherubs, leaf garlands, ornaments, art, Matthias Molckman, attributed, Middelburg, 1595, black-and-white, metal, gilding
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