ID 1360350
Lot 33 | A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER CUP AND COVER
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 80 000
MARK OF SIGMUND BIERFREUND, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1658
The bowl and cover realistically chased and engraved with petals and leaves resembling a tulip, with finial formed as three flowers, raised on a stem fully modeled as a winged putto holding a wreath aloft in one hand and a bird in the other standing on a plinth of leaves, all on a domed circular base chased with further tulips and with crimped rim, the cover and foot with maker's mark, the bowl with maker's mark and town mark
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high
20 oz. 8 dwt. (634.4 gr.)
Provenance
Baron Max von Heyl (1844-1925), Darmstadt.
Alfred Rütschi (1868-1929), Zurich.
The A. Rütschi Collection; Galerie Jürg Stucker, Bern, 26 November 1954, lot 115.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 14 May 1985, lot 221.
Acquired from Fritz Payer, Zurich, 18 June 1985.
Literature
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 30, pp. 152-153.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Category: | Cups |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Category: | Cups |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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