This footed tray is a presentation salver that forms a pair with O-60 of the Dauphin’s Treasure. Both are made from a single piece of lapis lazuli. It has a round, flat-bottomed bowl, low sides and a short turned stem resting on a small foot. A silver mount runs around the rim. Its profile, simple as it is, points to a work made in Milan, perhaps close to the Miseroni. It bears the hallmark, IR, o
A dish made up of a piece of rock crystal with a deep bowl and a broad brim, around which there runs a gilt silver mount with gadroons on the outer strip and engraved palmette motifs on the inside. In the centre is a crude engraving of a crowned eagle, abased, with its beak turned to its right. The glasswork is ancient, probably Roman, and the eagle was perhaps engraved around the 14th century to
This presentation salver or soucoupe forms a pair with O61 of the Dauphin’s Treasure, both being made from a single piece of lapis lazuli. It has a round bowl with a flat bottom, low sides and a short turned stem resting on a small foot. A silver mount runs around the rim. Its profile, simple as it is, points to a work made in Milan, perhaps close to the Miseroni. It preserves the silversmith’s ma