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Lot 406 Dα

An Augsburg Renaissance silver gilt tankard

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 7.000 € - 9.000 €
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An Augsburg Renaissance silver gilt tankard

Tapering vessel with scroll handle on a wide basal ring. Decorated with finely engraved scrollwork on a matte ground. The domed lid with corresponding decor and scroll thumb rest. The finial formed as a sitting lion holding a shield. Engraved on the underside with an arms of alliance, on the heraldic right presumably the arms of the Valais von Werra family. H 14 cm, weight 372 g.
Marks of Hieronymus Imhof, 1618 - 1622.

Provenance

Auctioned by Sotheby's New York, 2 - 3 Nov. 1989, lot 263; Kenneth Davis art dealership, London 1994; Westphalian private collection.

Literature

Cf. a "wager cup" by Imhof with identical decoration, illustrated in Seling 1980, no. 451. A further wager cup by the master is housed in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Acc. No. 17.190.579).