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A Nuremberg Renaissance silver gilt columbine cup

Auction 1253 - overview Cologne
15.11.2024, 10:00 - Silver
Estimate: 9.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 12.600 € (incl. premium)
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A Nuremberg Renaissance silver gilt columbine cup

Lobed base supporting a baluster-form shaft with three scroll appliques and a slender, waisted cup with repoussé scrollwork surrounding two rows of bosses. The cover with corrresponding decor and a large scroll finial. H 33 cm, weight 419 g.
Marks of Peter Wibers, around 1603 - 1609.

Today, many goblets from Wiber's oeuvre have survived and are housed in international collections, for example the Green Vault in Dresden, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Cologne, the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg and the National Museum in Copenhagen.

Literature

Cf. Kohlhaussen, Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst; Berlin 1968, pp. 300, 320, Hannelore Müller, European Silver; The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, London, 1986, pp. 190 f. A double beaker by this master can be found in the Rudolf-August Oetker Collection, cf. cat. Die Faszination des Sammelns, Munich 2011, no. 63. with illus. p. 244 f.