A Leipzig silver coin set beaker
A Leipzig silver coin set beaker
Tapering beaker with a moulded rim decorated with repoussé flowers and acanthus surrounding 21 Saxon thaler coins bearing portraits of Prince Elector Johann Georg I and Johann Georg II dated between 1640 and 1660. The base inset with a further taler dated 1629. H 14 cm, weight 380 g.
Marks of Gottfried Schmidt the Elder, 1682 - 84.
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of the Weimar court jeweller Theodor Müller (1838 - 1908); in family ownership until the 1960s; in a German private collection from 1972 - 2017; auctioned by Sotheby's London, May 2017, lot 52.
Literature
Schröder mentions a coin set beaker by Schmidt in Weimar Castle.
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A Leipzig silver coin set beaker
Tapering beaker with a moulded rim decorated with repoussé flowers and acanthus surrounding 21 Saxon thaler coins bearing portraits of Prince Elector Johann Georg I and Johann Georg II dated between 1640 and 1660. The base inset with a further taler dated 1629. H 14 cm, weight 380 g.
Marks of Gottfried Schmidt the Elder, 1682 - 84.
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of the Weimar court jeweller Theodor Müller (1838 - 1908); in family ownership until the 1960s; in a German private collection from 1972 - 2017; auctioned by Sotheby's London, May 2017, lot 52.
Literature
Schröder mentions a coin set beaker by Schmidt in Weimar Castle.
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