Lot 1003 Dα

A Renaissance silver tankard

The rounded base decorated with garlands of fruit supporting a slightly tapering corpus and cast herm handle. Decorated throughout with embossed and finely chased mascarons, fruit, birds and scrollwork. Engraved in three oval reserves with coats-of-arms and the monograms "ISH v CH" and "IZK" and with a finely engraved portrait of a bearded man. The domed lid with corresponding decoration and a finial formed as a standing nobleman holding a shield which also bears the arms seen on the corpus. On the inside of the lid a plaque engraved with an arms of alliance and monogrammed "B.S.HV. CH" and "I.G.F. V.Z.V.G.". H 19 cm, weight 635 g.
Presumably South German, late 16th century / around 1600.