A silver-mounted serpentine tankard - image-1

Lot 1006 Dα

A silver-mounted serpentine tankard

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 7.000 € - 8.000 €

A silver-mounted serpentine tankard

Faceted vessel and smooth lid fashioned from dark green serpentine fitted with a vermeil baluster-form finial, hinged mountings and pronged basal ring. The cover with a restored crack. The vermeil mountings unmarked. H 20 cm.
Presumably Saxony, second half 17th C.

Literature

Cf. Eva Maria Hoyer, Sächsischer Serpentin, Leipzig 1995, and cat. Sammlung Jahn, Sächsischer Serpentin, Berlin 2000, with copious illustrations.