ID 1345021
Lot 1 | A BALTIC PARCEL-GILT SILVER LARGE TANKARD
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
MARK OF JOHANN SELIGER, REVAL, CIRCA 1700
Cylindrical, the front chased with a coat-of-arms of a draped Classical nude standing on a sphere and the dove returning to Noah's Ark after the Flood, all within a foliate mantle below two helmets and the initials I.F. and C.L., the cover chased in high relief with a depiction of Jacob wrestling the angel within a border of putti supporting clusters of fruit and foliage suspended from ribbons, raised on three ball feet chased with fruit and headed by putti against foliage, with conforming elaborately scrolled handle and spherical thumb piece all chased with fruit, marked on underside
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high
68 oz. 10 dwt. (2,130.4 gr.)
Provenance
Acquired from Galerie Kugel, Paris.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Category: | Tankards |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Category: | Tankards |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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