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Lot 721 D‡α

An Augsburg silver gilt mounted ivory tankard

Auction 1107 - overview Cologne
15.05.2018, 17:00 - Selected Works
Estimate: 14.000 € - 18.000 €
Result: 18.600 € (incl. premium)
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An Augsburg silver gilt mounted ivory tankard

Cylindrical tankard with domed lid on three pad feet. The ivory body finely carved with a continuous depiction of a cavalry battle, presumably a scene from the Thirty Years' War. The lid finely carved with war trophies, the finial formed as a figure of Fortuna on a winged globe. With age-related shrinkage cracks. The feet of Fortuna restored, one wing of the finial replaced. H 29.5 cm.
Marks of Elias Adam, 1707 - 11.

Provenance

In Rhenish aristocratic ownership for several generations.

Literature

Only two mountings for ivory chalices by Elias Adam are known thus far. One in the collection of the Grünes Gewölbe, the other in the Kunstkammer of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (inv. no. 4497). Cf. cat.: Das Neue Grüne Gewölbe, Dresden 2007, p. 252.