A small Nuremberg engraved tin "Noah" plate. - image-1

Lot 468 Dα

A small Nuremberg engraved tin "Noah" plate.

Auction 1048 - overview Cologne
15.05.2015, 14:00 - Jewellery, Furniture, Objects of Vertu, Boxes, Portrait Miniatures
Estimate: 1.700 € - 2.000 €

A small Nuremberg engraved tin "Noah" plate.

A copy of Paulus Öham the Elder's Noah plate with an identical inscription. With four scenes from Genesis to the border. The city and maker's marks to the top in the depiction of the creation of Eve. A circular breakage to the top right of the centre, a drilled hole to the top, some dents. Diameter 17.6 cm.
Master Hans Nicolaus Spatz, 1675 - 75.

Literature

A similar example by a different master in the collection of the MAKK in Cologne (in: Haedecke, Zinn, Cologne 1968, no. 238).
On the copy and mark cf.: Hintze, Nürnberger Zinngießer, Aalen 1964, no. 323.