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Lot 304 Dα

An important Renaissance parcel gilt silver goblet with a "büttenmann" motif

Auction 1140 - overview Cologne
15.11.2019, 11:00 - Decorative Arts I (Silver)
Estimate: 40.000 € - 60.000 €
Result: 148.800 € (incl. premium)
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An important Renaissance parcel gilt silver goblet with a "büttenmann" motif

Gadrooned base supporting a figure of a man with a barrel on his back, a so-called "büttenmann". Above this the large cuppa formed as a bunch of grapes with gadrooned motifs in staggered rows, the corresponding cover topped by a "schmeck" finial. H 57 cm, weight 947 g.
Nuremberg, marks of Hans Weber, 1609 - 29.

Provenance

From an French private collection, purchased in the 1980s.

Literature

Cf. the so-called Hamern goblet by Weber in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, illus. in cat.: Wenzel Jamnitzer und die Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1500 - 1700, Nuremberg, 1985, cat. no. 87. A "traubenpokal" by Weber in: Bimbenet-Privat/Kugel, Chefs-d'oeuvre d'orfèvrerie Allemande, Paris 2017, cat. no. 21. For the figural shaft cf. a Nuremberg "traubenpokal" by Michael Müllner in the Rudolf-August Oetker collection, illus. in cat.: Faszination des Sammelns, Munich 2011, no. 51. Cf. also cat.: GNM 2017, no. 423 for this figure in a goblet by Thomas II Stör.