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Lot 1000 Dα

An Augsburg Renaissance silver tankard

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 40.000 € - 45.000 €
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An Augsburg Renaissance silver tankard

Tapering silver gilt vessel with a domed lid, richly decorated with repoussé scrollwork and finely chased mascarons alternating with incense burner motifs, fruit and insects. The solid silver scroll handle terminating in a female herm, the thumbrest formed as a mermaid. The lid inset with a 12th century Gelnhausen brakteate coin with busts of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Empress Beatrix, inscribed 'FRIDERIC'. Monogrammed"GMP" on the underside. H 15 cm, weight 651 g.
Marks of Hans I Arnold, 1590 - 1594.

The rare bracteate with the portraits of Bararossa and Beatrix with the lily sceptre, minted around 1170 in Gelnhausen an der Kinzig, is one of the most sought-after coins of the Staufer period.

Literature

Cf. Arnold's guild chalice in the form of an oven in the Landesmuseum Württemberg, illus. in Seling 1980, no. 111. For this type compare also two Augsburg tankards illus. in cat. Die Wiener Silber-Sammlung Bloch-Bauer/Pick, Vienna 2008, no. 10, 12. For more on the coin see Frank Berger, Die mittelalterlichen Brakteaten im Kestner-Museum Hannover Teil 2, Hannover 1996, no. 2343.