![Missing lidded cup with von Salis coat of arms, Karl Silvan Bossard, Lucerne, in a historic photograph.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titel-pokal-300x225.jpg)
A world-famous cup
A 16th-century royal wedding present grabbed the world’s attention before, and again after, industrialisation.
![Portrait of Jane Seymour, painted by Hans Holbein the Younger, around 1536.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/koenigin-199x300.jpg)
![Hans Holbein the Younger, preliminary sketch for the cup for Jane Seymour, around 1536.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/skizze-pokal-161x300.jpg)
Melted down and rediscovered
![The cup made by Bossard for the Zurich Zunft zur Waag guild, 1878.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/pokal-232x300.jpg)
![Portrait of Karl Silvan Bossard, painted by Jean Syndon-Faurie, 1909.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/bossard-237x300.jpg)
A 16th-century royal wedding present grabbed the world’s attention before, and again after, industrialisation.