A Gdansk Baroque silver dish
Deep, round parcel gilt bowl with a curved rim, decorated in the centre with a repoussé fruit garland motif, the rim with finely chased flowers in auricular reserves. Monogrammed "RR" on the underside. H c. 5.5; D 26 cm, weight 270 g.
Marks of Nathaniel Pressding I, around 1670.
Provenance
Private collection, Westphalia.
Literature
Cf. a tankard by this maker with similar decor in the Museum Haus Hansestadt Danzig in Lübeck, illus. in Frackowska, Gdansk Silver Tankards of the 17th and 18th Centuries, Warsaw 2013, p. 332.