Rock crystal, gilded silver, enamel
Late XIXth
Circa 1880
Very beautiful cup in engraved and enameled rock crystal and chiseled gilded silver. The foot in the shape of a nest topped with a stork with outstretched wings with its three chicks. The cup and the base are decorated with a polychrome enamel frieze depicting flowers and lake landscapes animated by birds, swans, ducks and turtles. Very beautiful work, undoubtedly Austrian, from the end of the XIXth.
The traces in the crystal are not cracks but effects of the rock crystal.