A GERMAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD

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A GERMAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD
AUGSBURG, 1590-1595, MAKER'S MARK OF JAKOB THURNHOVER

Of tapering cylindrical form, the rim foot with a beaded border, the body elaborately repousse and chased with scenes of a lion, a bull and a camel in pastoral landscapes, each in its own medallion of strapwork amid scrolls and foliage with busts of fashionable courtiers between, with scroll handle applied with caryatid and figural thumbpiece, the hinged cover similarly chased and surmounted by a lion sejant holding a shield, engraved under base with initials MFA, marked under base--6 3/4in.(17.1cm.) high
(17oz.10dwt.) (2)

拍品专文

The scenes of animals appear to be based on woodcuts by Cunrat Gesner, published in Zurich in 1553, and on engravings by Paul Flindt (d. 1618). A similar tankard by Hans Waidelin, dated 1595, was sold in these Rooms, October 30, 1991, lot 73, while another, maker's mark HP, was in the Eugen Gutman collection and is illustrated in Otto von Falke, Sammlung Eugen Gutman, Berlin, 1912, no. 125.

Jakob Thurnhover (d. 1596) made two altarvases for Maximilian I, now in the Residenz, Munich. (Seling, p.110)