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Lot 464 Dα

A museum quality Renaissance silver baptismal font

Auction 1131 - overview Cologne
17.05.2019, 10:30 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 10.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 12.400 € (incl. premium)
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A museum quality Renaissance silver baptismal font

Round, lobed bowl on a scalloped foot, scrolls to each side terminating in herms. Both lobes engraved with flowers, the display side with a coat-of-arms and the monogram "J.N.B", the opposing side with house mark and monogrammed "J.H.D", dated 1664. W 28; D 19.6; H 12 cm, weight 577 g.
Maker's mark "BK", presumably Danish, circa 1650.

Literature

This maker's mark can also be found on a Danish silver vessel in the Olsen collection (cf. Schmitz, Generaldirektor Ole Olsens Kunstsamlinger, Munich 1943, no. 399). It has been tentatively attributed to the Danish goldsmith Bertel Klüver, who was active in Glückstadt and is recorded as court goldsmith to Christian IV. Cf.: Berling Liisberg, Christian den Fjerde og Guldsmedene, Copenhagen 1929, p. 22 ff. For this family of goldsmiths from Schleswig-Holstein cf.: Stierling, p. 150. For this type cf. Meinz, Schönes altes Silber, Munich 1964, p. 106. Cf. a Swedish font in church ownership illus. in: Hernmarck, Renässans och Barock, Stockholm 1941, no. 145.