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Lot 517 Dα

A museum quality parcel gilt Augsburg silver ewer and basin

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 10:30 - Silver
Estimate: 50.000 € - 60.000 €
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A museum quality parcel gilt Augsburg silver ewer and basin

The rim of the scalloped basin decorated with strapwork and shell motifs, the deep well with lambrequins, the central recess corresponding. The body of the bulbous ewer repeating the decor of the basin, the solid silver handle formed from two entwined dolphins. H of ewer 29.5; D of basin 48.3 cm, total weight 1,782 g.
Marks of Michael I Heckel, 1705 - 09.

Provenance

From a German private collection.

Literature

Illus. in Helmut Seling, Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede 1529 - 1868, Munich 1980, no. 846, this maker's mark then still attributed to Michael Hueter. Cf. also a ewer by Heckel in the armoury of the Kremlin in Moscow illus. in cat. Silber und Gold II, Augsburger Goldschmiedekunst für die Höfe Europas, Munich 1994, no. 34.

Exhibitions

Schätze Deutscher Goldschmiedekunst von 1500 bis 1920, Ausstellung des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg in Verbindung mit den Museen in Ingolstadt, Hanau und Lüneburg, 1992, illus. no. 260 in exhib. cat., p. 339.