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Lot 1610 Dα

An Augsburg silver gilt columbine cup

Auction 1096 - overview Cologne
17.11.2017, 18:00 - Selected Works
Estimate: 15.000 € - 20.000 €
Result: 17.360 € (incl. premium)

An Augsburg silver gilt columbine cup

Designed as a waisted gadrooned cuppa above a cast baluster-form shaft resting on a correspondingly gadrooned foot. The finial formed as a figure of a Roman soldier. H 38.5 cm, weight 593 g.
Marks of Andreas I Gilg, 1616 - 20.

Literature

Cf. a lavabo garniture by this maker in the Landesmuseum Württemberg, illus. in: Seling 1980, no. 76, as well as a reversible chalice and a covered tankard in the Kremlin in Moscow, illus. in cat.: Zarensilber, Munich 2008, no. 11, 9. Cf. also a covered chalice with an identical finial illus. in: Schmitz, Generaldirektor Ole Olsens Kunstsamlinger, Munich 1924, no. 195, pl. XXVII.