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Lot 504 D α

A museum-quality Augsburg silver gilt Renaissance tankard

Auction 1253 - overview Cologne
15.11.2024, 10:00 - Silver
Estimate: 25.000 € - 30.000 €
Result: 32.760 € (incl. premium)
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A museum-quality Augsburg silver gilt Renaissance tankard

Tapering vessel with a cast silver herm handle on a shallow basal ring with acanthus frieze. Decorated with lush scrollwork surrounding three finely chased depictions of a bear, lion and elephant in landscapes, based on designs by the Nuremberg goldsmith and engraver Paul Flindt the Younger. With three bas relief repoussé flower vases between the reserves. The domed cover with corresponding decor depicting two dogs hunting a deer, inset in the centre with a so-called "halbbatzen" coin from Kempten im Allgäu dated 1517. H 15.5 cm, weight 607 g.
Marks of Hans I Arnold, 1599 - 1604.

Provenance

Former Kenneth Davies art dealership, London; Christie's New York, 30 October 1991, lot 52; private collection.

Literature

Cf. Arnold's guild goblet in the form of a tiled stove in the collection of the Württemberg State Museum, illustrated in Seling 1980, no. 111. For the type, cf. two Augsburg tankards, illustrated in cat. no. 10/Pick, Vienna 2008. Die Wiener Silber-Sammlung Bloch-Bauer/Pick, Vienna 2008, nos. 10 and 12. Cf. also a goblet with depictions of animals after Paul Flindt in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, illustrated in cat. European Silver, London 1986, no. 51.