A Baroque silver communion jug - image-1

Lot 1160 Dα

A Baroque silver communion jug

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.386 € (incl. premium)

A Baroque silver communion jug

Slightly tapering vessel with curved handle and hinged lid with spherical finial. Engraved to the front with the coat-of-arms of the Spiller von Mitterberg und Steeben noble family from Thuringia beneath a foliate crown, dated 1720. Gilt interior. H 20.5 cm, weight 331 g.
No maker's mark, attributed to Thuringia, around 1720.

Johann Ludwig Spiller von Mitterberg und Steeben (born 1672) was a colonel under Emperor Charles VI, then privy councillor to the duke of Meiningen, court marshall and infantry and cavalry commander, and finally head war commissar of Gotha. He married imperial baroness Maria Christina Eichler von Auritz from Oberstadt in the parish of Hildburghausen in the southern Thuringian forest on 17th May 1709.