An important Siebenbürgen silver tankard
Tapering silver gilt vessel with a domed lid. The elaborate scroll handle formed as a female herm. Decorated throughout with repoussé scrollwork, garlands of fruit, finely chased depictions of animals and three oval scrollwork cartouches depicting a roebuck, stag and hunting dog in landscapes. The lid with corresponding decor, baluster-form finial and bifurcated thumbrest. H 23.8 cm, weight 786 g.
Marks of Bartholomäus Igell the Elder, around 1600 - 1620.
Certificate
With a material analysis and detailed expertise by Prof. Dr. Ernst-Ludwig Richter, Freudental, from 24th Nov. 2017.
Literature
Cf. a Kronstadt tankard of the same form with an identical handle now housed in the Musée Nationale de la Renaissance, Écouen, illus. in Bimbenet-Privat/Kugel, Chefs-d'Oeuvre d'Orfèvrerie Allemande, Renaissance et Baroque, Dijon 2017, no. 94.
Cf. also Heller, Ungarische und Siebenbürgische Goldschmiedearbeiten, Munich 2000, p. 90 f., and a Siebenbürgen beaker with hunting scenes in the Hungarian National Museum, illus. in cat. Schätze des Ungarischen Barock, Hanau 1991, cat. no. 17.
The parish of Zeiden/Codlea in Burzenland also houses a communion jug by Igell.
Cf. http://www.burzenland.de/Burzenland/downloads/burzenlaenderkalender201504.pdf