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Lot 1067 Dα

An important pair of Augsburg silver gilt abbot's beakers

Auction 1066 - overview Cologne
20.05.2016, 17:00 - Selected Works of Art
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 11.160 € (incl. premium)
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An important pair of Augsburg silver gilt abbot's beakers

With the coat-of-arms of Abbot Paulus Schmid, head of Marchtal Abbey, and the initials "PAZM". H 11.5 cm, weight 191 and 194 g.
Marks of Caspar Xaver Stippeldey, 1790.

Obermarchtal Abbey is a former imperial Premonstratensian monastery and is located between Ehingen and Riedlingen in the Alb-Donau-Kreis. Paulus Schmid was abbot there from 1772 until his death in 1796. During his time as abbot, he had the choir of the abbey renovated and the organ replaced with one made by the famous organ-maker Johann Nepomuk Holzhey of Ottobeuren. Schmid's coat-of-arms can today be found on the gates of the choir beside those of the founding monk Nikolaus Wierith and arms of the abbey itself.

Literature

A silver-mounted shrine by Stippeldey is kept in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, illus. in: Seling 1980, no. 693.