A Hamburg Baroque silver tankard
A Hamburg Baroque silver tankard
Cylindrical vessel on a domed base with repoussé floral decor. The central surface decorated with a frieze of amoretti making music, the lid reiterating the decor of the base and applied with a round medallion depicting David and Goliath. Underneath the base with engraved Old Church Slavonic inscriptions. H 19.5 cm, weight 904 g.
Marks of Hanß Lambrecht III, 1642 - 58.
Literature
Cf. a tankard with a child Bacchanalia scene in the Röhsska Museum, Göteborg, mentioned in Schliemann 1985, p.104. A further tankard housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in ibid. no. 269.
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A Hamburg Baroque silver tankard
Cylindrical vessel on a domed base with repoussé floral decor. The central surface decorated with a frieze of amoretti making music, the lid reiterating the decor of the base and applied with a round medallion depicting David and Goliath. Underneath the base with engraved Old Church Slavonic inscriptions. H 19.5 cm, weight 904 g.
Marks of Hanß Lambrecht III, 1642 - 58.
Literature
Cf. a tankard with a child Bacchanalia scene in the Röhsska Museum, Göteborg, mentioned in Schliemann 1985, p.104. A further tankard housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in ibid. no. 269.
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