A rare Reutlingen Renaissance silver gilt coconut cup - image-1
A rare Reutlingen Renaissance silver gilt coconut cup - image-2
A rare Reutlingen Renaissance silver gilt coconut cup - image-3
A rare Reutlingen Renaissance silver gilt coconut cup - image-1A rare Reutlingen Renaissance silver gilt coconut cup - image-2A rare Reutlingen Renaissance silver gilt coconut cup - image-3

Lot 509 Dα

A rare Reutlingen Renaissance silver gilt coconut cup

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 10:30 - Silver
Estimate: 14.000 € - 18.000 €
Result: 30.240 € (incl. premium)
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A rare Reutlingen Renaissance silver gilt coconut cup

Round base with repoussé strapwork and scrollwork decor supporting a cup formed from a smoothed cococut shell held in place with three clamps. The flaring rim engraved with foliage surrounding three round portrait medallions. The domed lid with corresponding decor and finial formed as a lion holding a shield engraved with a "house mark". The rim monogrammed "GS", the base engraved with the weight "W. XV, Lott." H 26.5 cm, weight 374 g.
Reutlingen, attributed to Christoph Gretzinger, c. 1600.

The Gretzinger (also: Grötzinger) family produced at least four goldsmiths in Reutlingen in the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as Salomon Grötzinger in Augsburg.

Provenance

Private collection, Hesse.

Literature

Cf. a Reutlingen cup and cover by Christoph Gretzinger, the so-called musical beaker of Christoph Ensslin, now housed in the Heimatmuseum Reutlingen, illus. in Pechstein, Goldschmiedewerke der Renaissance, Berlin 1971, no. 74.
Cf. also a coconut goblet in the Art Historical Museum in Vienna (inv. no. KK9043) illus. in cat. Die Wiener Sammlung Bloch-Baur/Pick, Vienna 2008, p. 30.