A Nuremberg silver gilt goblet
Lobed scalloped foot supporting a smooth shaft with Gothic tracery supporting and tapering cup with grape-like lobes. The spandrels of the upper row of lobes interspersed with floral appliques, the rim with a finely etched frieze of fruiting grapevines. The domed lid with conforming decor and crowned by a figure of a Roman soldier with a lance. H 33.5 cm, weight 463 g.
Marks of Hans Frühinsfeld, c. 1650 - 57.
In the collection of the Grassi Museum in Leipzig there is a Nuremberg double barn, around 1500, with an identical silhouette. The former director of the museum, Dr. Eva Maria Hoyer, writes in the information leaflet on this goblet: "The type of the richly humped, "knobbly" goblet with a multi-pass foot, tree-like fluted shaft with leaf hoop and a humped cup was trained at the end of the 15th century in Nuremberg, at that time the leading German goldsmiths' centre. As a popular gift of honour and a precious representative piece, it remained in its traditional canon of forms until well into the 17th century".
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Literature
For more on Hans Frühinsfeld cf. cat.: Wenzel Jamnitzer und die Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1500 - 1700, Nürnberg 1985, no. 161, 164, 249. A giant goblet by this maker in cat. GNM 2007, vol. I, no. 360. For this type, cf. a goblet by Hans I Ulrich Scheuer in private ownership illus. in cat.: GNM 2007. vol. II, p. 168.