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Lot 505 Nα

An important silver gilt mounted double mazer cup

Auction 1253 - overview Cologne
15.11.2024, 10:00 - Silver
Estimate: 40.000 € - 60.000 €
Result: 50.400 € (incl. premium)
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An important silver gilt mounted double mazer cup

Made up of two bulbous wooden goblets with gilt silver mountings. The gilded basal ring with beaded mouldings: the lower cup with curved handle engraved with tendrils and flowerheads; upper cup with corresponding decor to the lip and base with pierced tendril design. The panel in the base of the lower cup finely engraved with a standing putto holding a vase of acanthus vines above his head, dated "1535" below his feet. H 17; W 14,8; D 12,5 cm, weight 350 g.
Unmarked, attributed to Southern Germany or Switzerland. 1535.

Provenance

From a Swiss private collection.

Literature

Cf. a double beaker with Nuremberg silver mount in the collection of the Städtisches Museum Schweinfurt, illustrated in Heinrich Kohlhaussen, Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst des Mittelalters und der Dürerzeit 1240 - 1540, Berlin 1968, no. 247, fig. 271. Cf. also an unmarked ‘Maserkopf’ in the collection of the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum Zürich, in Alain Gruber, Weltliches Silber, Bern 1977, no. 55. A third in the Bloch-Baur/Pick collection is illustrated in cat. Die Wiener Silbersammlung Bloch-Baur/Pick, Vienna 2008, p. 26 f.