A Renaissance parcel-gilt silver tankard, unidentified maker's mark, Augsburg, 16th century
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October 12, 05:41 PM GMT
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100,000 - 150,000 EUR
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A Renaissance parcel-gilt silver tankard, unidentified maker's mark, Augsburg, 16th cen🐟tury
the foot rim, the neck, and cover engraved with scroll, the filigree body with rosette motif between two friezes of putti and masks on matted ground, the thumbpiece shape✅d as a female mask, with immovable glass liner
height 9 7/16 in.; total weigh𓆉t 38,ꦍ6 oz.; 21 cm; 1096 gr.
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Chope en argent et vermeil, poinçꦜon d'orf𒁏èvre non identifiée, Augsbourg, XVIe siècle
le b💟ord du pied, le col et le couvercle gravés de rinceaux, le corps filigrané à motif de rosace entre deux frises de putti et de masques sur fond amati, l'appui-pouce en forme de masque féminin, avec doublure en verre inamovible
height 9 7/1ꦍ6 in.; total weight 38,6 oz.; 21 cm; 1096 gr.
A. A. Antiquities, 2014
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A. A. Antiquities, 2014
This tankard is one of a small group of silver gilt and silver filigree mounted glass tankards made in Southern Germany during the second half of the sixteenth century. It is not known exactly how many were made or how many are extant but in 1910 E. Alfred Jones recorded ten tankards in total, including four then in the Russian Imperial Collection and one bequeathed to Clure College, Cambridge in 1617. The tankards originate from Augsburg or Ulm, apart from the unma🦂rked ones, and they tend to be classified into two groups due to two variations of the design. Examples are found in the following locations: the Kremlin, Moscow; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (inv. n°997.158.83); the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Clare College, Cambridge; Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich; The Schroder collection(1987, cat.20); The Gilbert collection and the Schatzkammer des Deutschen Ordens, Vienna.
