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Lot 632 Dα

An Augsburg enamel liquor beaker

Auction 1107 - overview Cologne
15.05.2018, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 3.000 € - 5.000 €
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An Augsburg enamel liquor beaker

Coloured enamel on copper, gilt bronze mountings, on a later ebonised wood base. Conical cuppa with gilt inset, screw-mounted to a stem with three rings. Decorated with three portraits of courtly ladies supported by three herms. Black counter enamel. Two retouches, one to the lip backed with metal foil; minor scratches; a small chip. H 11.5 cm.
1st quarter 18th C., the decor attributed to Johann Jakob I Priester.

Literature

Cf. Weinhold, Emailmalerei an Augsburger Goldschmiedearbeiten von 1650 bis 1750, p. 52 ff. and p. 141 ff. The author has published three beakers signed by Priester with similar decor (no. 117 in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt, no. 132 in the Victoria and Albert Museum London and no. 127).