A pewter jug made for the Nuremberg butchers' guild - image-1

Lot 842 Dα

A pewter jug made for the Nuremberg butchers' guild

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 16:00 - Decorative Arts Furniture
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 1.764 € (incl. premium)

A pewter jug made for the Nuremberg butchers' guild

Tapering vessel on three lion supports, with an ox head relief, tap and finial formed as a lion. Large shield at the front bearing the names of the guild masters. Marked on the handle (Hintze, vol. II, no. 370 ff.) and with a large rose mark on the inside. H 57 cm.
Attributed to Georg Suff the Younger, around / before 1712.

Literature

For other Nuremberg jugs of this type see Thormann, Zunftzinn und Zunftsilber im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 1991, p. 65 ff.