Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1910 — High-Priced Biberon. [ARTICLE]

High-Priced Biberon.

Ten thousand guineas were given by C. Wertheimer, at the sale of the late Baron Schroeder’s collection at Christie’s a few days ago, for a sixteenth century biberon of carved rock crystal mounted with enameled gold. It is made in imitation of some fabled monster which its designer may have imagined to be a sea serpent, but the body of which, lost in a series of flutlngs, resembles more closely that of a water fowl. The crystal neck and body is mounted with enameled gold, and is poised like a wineglass on a crystal stem, also mounted very beautifully in gold and enamel. The lid of the biberon is surmounted by a statuette in enamel of Neptune sitting astride a Triton, and in this, every other portion of the decoration, the work is of unsurpassable delicacy. It is thought to have come from the hands of Daniel Mignot of Augsburg, who made it for the Emperor Rudolph ll.—London Graphic.