UNKNOWN GOLDSMITH, Italian
(active 1580s in Florence)

Small Cup

1580s
Borate agate mounted in gilt and engraved silver, 3,5 x 8,5 x 7 cm
Museo di Storia Naturale, Florence

The cup, carved in the 1580s in an oval shape from a special variety of agate was fitted with a gilt silver mounting in the middle of the seventeenth century.




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