An important Hamburg silver gilt Renaissance beaker

An important Hamburg silver gilt Renaissance beaker

Hexagonal beaker on a large basal ring decorated with snakeskin pattern engravings in moulded rectangular reserves. H 13.5 cm, weight 255 g.
Marks of Herman Keyser II, circa 1620.

Literature

For this type cf. a beaker currently attributed to the Lüneburg goldsmith Clawes Harder housed in the Danish National Museum, illustrated in Boesen/Bøje, Gammelt Dansk Sølv, Copenhagen 1948, no. 51. Cf. Also an octagonal Nuremberg beaker from the workshop of Peter Wiber in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, illustrated in cat. European Silver, London 1986, no. 56.