A 17th Century Augsburg Silver Filigree Mounted Nautilus Shell.

 A Late 17th Century Augsburg Mounted Nautilus Shell.

A South German Nautilus cup with silver-gilt and Silver Filigree Mounts, 

By Johann-Andreas Thelot (1655 - 1734), Augsburg, c. 1695-1700.

Although not stated in the online catalogue entry (link below) I presume that this piece is indented with the makers mark.

Lot 311. 12 October 2022.

Sotheby's Paris Sale - Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume II : Kunstkammer

The Nautilus shell engraved with Commedia del Arte characters after Jacques Callot.

 

Height - 39.8 cm.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/hotel-lambert-une-collection-princiere-volume-ii-kunstkammer/a-german-nautilus-cup-with-silver-gilt-mounts

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For a 17th / 18th Century Filigree mounted shell in the Kremlin Museum see my previous post - 

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/02/silver-filigree-in-kremlin-museums.html

and for another sold by Sotheby's - again see my previous post -

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/silver-filigree-and-lapis-lazuli-turbo.html

For more mounted Nautilus shells in the Grunes Gewolbe, Dresden see the 1932 Catalogue.

 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnes_Gew%C3%B6lbe_%28Dresden%29,_Galeriewerk_Sponsel