A Goslar silver snakeskin beaker made for Gandersheim nunnery - image-1
A Goslar silver snakeskin beaker made for Gandersheim nunnery - image-2
A Goslar silver snakeskin beaker made for Gandersheim nunnery - image-1A Goslar silver snakeskin beaker made for Gandersheim nunnery - image-2

Lot 1093 Dα

A Goslar silver snakeskin beaker made for Gandersheim nunnery

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 6.500 € - 6.800 €

A Goslar silver snakeskin beaker made for Gandersheim nunnery

Tapering beaker decorated to resemble snakeskin, engraved below the rim "Capitulum Des Stiffts Gandersheimb 1681". H 9.3 cm, weight 112 g.
Marks of Ludwig von Hagen, around 1680.

Gandersheim was a royal nunnery in what is now Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony. The chapter was made up of collegiate ladies who were dedicated to the education and upbringing of noble daughters.