Copenhagen. SILVER LID TANKARD WITH LION FEET

Lot 627
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Lot 627 | Copenhagen. SILVER LID TANKARD WITH LION FEET
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SILVER LID TANKARD WITH LION FEET.

Copenhagen.
Date: 1688.
Technique: Silver with inner-gilding.
Description: On three feet in the form of lions plain cylindrical body. At the top of the hinged lid
engraced owner's inscription in wreath of leaves: "Anne Heegemands - Christian von Steen
Vinckel" as well as 1 1/2 commemoration coin of Ferdinand I with the years 1541/1560.
Under the liprim engraved owner's inscription of the 19th C.
Weight: Ca. 445g.
Measurement: Height 13cm.
Mark: Inspection mark Kopenhagen with 1688 (Boje no.25), inspection mark-Meister Conrad Ludolf (1679-1729, ibid. p.29), maker's mark indistinct in shield and with year 1688.


Literature:
Tychsen, V.E.: Fortifikations-Etaterne og Ingenieurkorpset: 1684-1893 ; Personalhistorisk Oversigt, udabeidet i Anledning af 200-Aarsdagen, den 6te November 1884, for den danske Fortifikations-Etat Oprettelse, Aamodts, 1983. On Christian von Steenvinkel see p.40f.

Christian von Steenvinkel entered military service in 1656 and was responsible for the fortifications in Copenhagen from 1679 and later for the whole of Denmark. He died in 1694 shortly after being promoted to lieutenant colonel. His wife Anna survived him by many years and died in 1744 at the age of 96.
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