A parcel gilt Nuremberg silver shell chalice - image-1
A parcel gilt Nuremberg silver shell chalice - image-2
A parcel gilt Nuremberg silver shell chalice - image-1A parcel gilt Nuremberg silver shell chalice - image-2

Lot 809 Dα

A parcel gilt Nuremberg silver shell chalice

Auction 1086 - overview Cologne
19.05.2017, 17:00 - Selected Works of Art
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 7.440 € (incl. premium)

A parcel gilt Nuremberg silver shell chalice

The shell-form cuppa supported by the figure of a genius and crowned by a putto with one arm outstretched (the attribute in the left hand lost). H 22 cm, weight 157 g.
Marks of Simon Lang, ca. 1650.

Literature

Cf. a shell chalice by this maker in the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, illus. in cat. GNM 2007, no. 646.