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Lot 401 D α

A Nuremberg Renaissance silver gilt goblet

Auction 1275 - overview Cologne
21.11.2025, 11:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver
Estimate: 15.000 € - 20.000 €
Result: 23.940 € (incl. premium)
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A Nuremberg Renaissance silver gilt goblet

Round, domed and waisted foot with repoussé scrollwork and fruit garlands. Above a cast vase with three straps rises the cylindrical, upwardly flaring cup with a smooth, slightly splayed lip rim. The wall is decorated with three finely chased mascarons set among rich strapwork and fruit garlands. The slightly domed lid features corresponding decor; the finial designed as a landsknecht, holding a shield in his left hand and a lance in his right. H 31 cm, weight 369 g.
Marks of Heinrich Jonas, 1580 - 1591.

Provenance

Dutch private collection.

Literature

Cf. Kat. GNM 2007, figs. 145, 182, for Jonas.
See also a nautilus cup by the maker in the collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, illustrated in Ulrike Weinhold and Theresa Witting, Goldschmiedekunst im Grünen Gewölbe, Dresden 2024, pp. 287 ff.
For the type, cf. two Nuremberg cups in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, illustrated in the catalogue Wenzel Jamnitzer und die Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1500–1700, Munich 1985, nos. 42, 63.
The ornamental designs likely go back to Nuremberg engravers such as Paul Flindt and Bernard Zam; cf. Die Wiener Silber-Sammlung Bloch-Baur/Pick, Vienna 2008, p. 46.