Enamelled silver cup
Depicting Pyramus and Thisbe, after an engraving published in Augsburg around 1694 by Johann Ulrich Krauß. This print was part of a German edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses: Die Verwandlungen des Ovidii in Zweyhundert und sechs- und zwantzig Kupffern.
Gilt silver, polychrome enamel
Augsburg, circa 1700 - 1710
Attributed to the workshop of Johann Aufenwerth
Diam : 10 cm 144 gr
Literature:
Published in Ulrike Weinhold, Emailmalerei an Augsburger Goldschmiedearbeiten von 1650 bis 1750, 2000, p. 241, cat. no. 77 (without illustration)