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Lot 507 Dα

A silver pomander

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 15.000 € - 18.000 €
Result: 15.120 € (incl. premium)

A silver pomander

Spherical body on a round, tapering base; engraved throughout with acanthus and stylised blossoms. The screw-in carrying handle holds together six hinged segments with small sliding lids, each engraved "KANEL", "SCHLAG", "ROSMARIN", "MUSCAT", "ROSEN", "NEGELKEN" and numbered 1 to 6. The screw-in foot with fixed spoon in the pomander column and six soldered silver beads; the monograms "TS NS" engraved on the underside. H 5.8 cm, weight 79 g.
Unmarked, presumably Southern Germany, 17th C.

Literature

Cf. two pomanders from the Schwarzkopf collection, illustrated in Edmund Launert, Parfüm und Flakons, Kostbare Gefäße für erlesenen Duft, Munich 1985, fig. no. 50 ff. Cf. also Heiner Meininghaus et al, Aromata, Düfte und edle Flakons aus fünf Jahrhunderten, Stuttgart 1998, p. 58.