A Nuremberg Renaissance silver beaker - image-1
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Lot 504 Dα

A Nuremberg Renaissance silver beaker

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 7.000 € - 8.000 €

A Nuremberg Renaissance silver beaker

Smooth octagonal base supporting a cylindrical shaft and polygonally formed cup engraved with insects and garlands. H 8.4 cm, weight 93 g.
Marks of Stephan Gressel, 1609 - 29.

Literature

An apparently identically decorated but slightly smaller beaker mentioned in cat. GNM 2007, no. 294.02. For this type cf. A Nuremberg rummer by Hans Pott, illustrated in ibid., no. 586, and a beaker by Jeronimus Behaim in the Overzier collection illustrated in cat. Deutsches Silber 1550 - 1850, Munich 1987, no. 36.