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Lot 722 Dα

A small Augsburg silver tankard

Auction 1152 - overview Cologne
29.05.2020, 14:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 7.500 € (incl. premium)
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A small Augsburg silver tankard

Silver; gold-plated. A silver-gilt tankard of tapering cylindrical form with a cast scroll handle. Decorated with garlands of fruit in bas relief and auricular style cartouches, with a vacant oval reserve to the front. The domed lid with corresponding décor and a bifurcated thumb rest. Brands: BZ Augsburg for 1624 - 28, MZ Lukas Neusser (c. 1618 - 57, Seling no. 0330, 1321), tremolier engraving. H 14 cm, weight 381 g.
Marks of Lukas Neusser, 1624 – 28.

Literature

Cf. a pair of tazzas from a series of 18 in total ordered from Neusser by King Charles XI of Sweden as gifts for the Russian Tzars, illus. in cat.: Silverskatter fran Kreml, Stockholm 1997, no. 28 f., 55 f., one pair housed in the Kremlin in Moscow, the other in the Nordiska Museet, Stockholm. Cf. also cat.: Silvergåvor, Stockholm 2014, no. 119 - 135.