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Lot 1009 D α

An important Hamburg Baroque silver tankard

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 30.000 € - 35.000 €
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An important Hamburg Baroque silver tankard

Cylindrical parcel-gilt tankard with a hinged lid and rounded basal ring. Decorated throughout with a finely chased depiction of peasants resting in a bucolic landscape, the handle and thumbrest with elaborate auricular mouldings. The slightly domed lid inset with a medallion depicting a soldier on a rearing horse. H 22.5 cm, weight 1,825 g.
Marks of Jürgen Richels, around 1680.

Literature

Cf. a tankard by Richel in the parish church of Lindgö in Sweden illus. in Schliemann 1985, no. 266.
Two further tankards by this maker are housed in the Hamburg Decorative Arts Museum, illus. in Hüseler, Hamburger Silber 1600 - 1800, Darmstadt undated, no. 25 f.