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Lot 1008 Dα

An Augsburg silver tankard

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 15.000 € - 18.000 €
Result: 15.000 € (incl. premium)
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An Augsburg silver tankard

Cylindrical parcel-gilt tankard on a rounded acanthus clasped base. Decorated with a frieze of child-like nereids playing with a lion in shallow water. The domed lid with corresponding decor and a large spherical finial. H 17.2 cm, weight 768 g.
Marks of Israel Thelott, 1673 - 1677.

Literature

The outer decor was probably created by Johann Andreas Thelott during his time as an apprectice in the workshop of his father Israel.
Cf. a tankard in the Kunsthistorischen Museum Vienna, illus. in Seling 1980, no. 620, and ibid. illus. 615, 619.
For more on Johann Andreas Thelott cf. cat. Silber und Gold II, Augsburger Goldschmiedekunst für die Höfe Europas, Munich 1994, p. 379 ff.