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Lot 688 Dα

A Bolsward silver beaker

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 10:30 - Silver
Estimate: 3.000 € - 3.500 €
Result: 3.780 € (incl. premium)
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A Bolsward silver beaker

Tall, tapering beaker on a moulded basal ring. Decorated with engraved fruit garlands and birds surrounding three scrollwork cartouches with scenes of Adam and Eve with the snake, Christ and the Samaritan woman, and the flight into Egypt. The lower section with birds on brackets. Inscribed to the base "JPPG Simckes Ende Houck Jacobs sin Wief", dated 1651 and with two vacant shields. H 13.1 cm, weight 148 g.
Maker's mark attributed to Jan Sjoerds, 1644.

We would like to thank Professor Johan ter Molen, Apeldoorn for his kind support in cataloguing this lot.

Provenance

John Endlich art dealership, Haarlem; Dutch private collection.

Literature

This maker's mark was long attributed to the Bolsward goldsmith Frans Rienks Baardt, cf. Peter Schoen, Tussen hamer en aambeeld; Edelsmeden in Friesland tijdens de Gouden Eeuw, Diss. Leiden 2016.