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Lot 502 Dα

A museum-quality Nuremberg silver gilt goblet

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 10:30 - Silver
Estimate: 38.000 € - 40.000 €
Result: 60.480 € (incl. premium)
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A museum-quality Nuremberg silver gilt goblet

Round, waisted base with repoussé strapwork surrounding mascaron reliefs in three finely chased reserves supporting a vase shaped node with scroll appliques and a tall tapering cup decorated with trophies amid scroll- and strapwork interspersed with birds and mascarons. The lip with a frieze of finely etched tendrils. The lid with corresponding decor and a finial formed as a figure of a soldier holding a lance and shield engraved with a coat-of-arms. H 40.8 cm, weight 664 g.
Marks of Hans Zeyher, 1592 - 1594.

Literature

For this type see two goblets from Nuremberg in the Germanischen Nationalmuseum, illus. in cat. Wenzel Jamnitzer und die Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1500 - 1700, Munich 1985, no. 42, 63. The ornamental motifs are probably based on works by Nuremberg based engravers such as Paul Flindt and Bernard Zam, see cat. Die Wiener Silber-Sammlung Bloch-Baur/Pick, Vienna 2008, p. 46.