A museum quality Hamburg partially gilt silver tankard - image-1
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Lot 605 Dα

A museum quality Hamburg partially gilt silver tankard

Auction 1056 - overview Cologne
13.11.2015, 10:30 - Silver and Miniatures
Estimate: 25.000 € - 28.000 €
Result: 31.000 € (incl. premium)

A museum quality Hamburg partially gilt silver tankard

A museum quality Hamburg partially gilt silver tankard. The corpus with a fine relief depiction of the Rape of the Sabines. Monogrammed "ISH" below the rim and dated 1613 in Cyrillic. Engraved weight "3=93" to the underside. Marks of Hanß Lambrecht III, 1662 - 67. H 23.5 cm, weight 1618 g.

Literature

Cf. a tankard by this master in the Swedish Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, illus. in: Schliemann 1985, no. 264. A further tankard by Lambrecht also in Stockholm, from the estate of King Karls XV., illus. in cat.: European Silver 1500 - 1850, Stockholm 2011, no. 185.