ARTISTS
Attributed to Jean Court
FOOTED CUP AND COVER 16TH CENTURY
With a gilt-bronze pierced globe finial; cover and bowl painted with the story of Adam and Eve and their explusion from the garden of Eden, after Lucas van Leyden, the centre of the bowl with Cain and Abel; the lid inscribed 'I.C.D.V.'; the domed foot with a coat of arms of Pierre Scarron (1536-1607) seigneur de Saint-Trys, conseiller and maitre d鈥檋么tel to Catherine de M茅dici and Henri IV, flanked by the initials PS
25.4 cm
Signed
