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Lot 1004 Dα

A Rostock museum-quality diamond pattern silver gilt tankard

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 25.000 € - 30.000 €
Result: 32.760 € (incl. premium)
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A Rostock museum-quality diamond pattern silver gilt tankard

Rounded base with flame ornament supporting a cylindrical vessel decorated with repoussé diamond motifs in eleven rows. The domed lid with corresponding decor and a baluster-shaped finial. The cast silver handle formed as a finely chased faun, the thumbrest made up of two scrolls. Engraved with the weight "47.LOT.1 q" below the base. H 20.6 cm, weight 617 g.
Marks of Peter Quistorp, around 1620 - 1630.

The rectory of St. Mary's Church in Rostock houses a hexagonal, heavily gilded host box by Peter Quistorp, together with a small silver chalice. Further works by the master and his son Joachim are kept in the Art History Museum in Rostock.

Literature

Cf. Achim v. Quistorp, Beiträge zur Genealogie und Geschichte der Familie Quistorp, Berlin 2017. This tankard mentioned in Peter Arnold Heuser, Die Rostocker Theologen Quistorp des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts im Spiegel ihrer Familienbibel, in: Rostocker Studien zur Universitätsgeschichte, vol. 33, Rostock 2021.