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Lot 505 Dα

An Augsburg Renaissance silver gilt tankard

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 10:30 - Silver
Estimate: 10.000 € - 14.000 €
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An Augsburg Renaissance silver gilt tankard

Slender basal ring supporting a cylindrical vessel decorated with three repoussé mascarons amid scroll- and strapwork and fruit garlands. The solid cast handle with an armoured male herm, the domed lid with corresponding decor and a baluster-form finial. The thumb rest formed as a figure of young Bacchus sitting on a barrel. H 13 cm, weight 347 g.
Philipp I or Philipp II Zwitzel, 1602 - 1606.

Literature

For this type cf. a tankard by the Augsburg maker Paul Hübner, illus. in Seling 1980, no. 135. Cf. also an unmarked work produced before 1596, illus. in cat. Die Wiener Silber-Sammlung Bloch-Baur/Pick, Vienna 2008, p. 46.