CIRCA 1688, SIGNED WITH THE MONOGRAM JWS

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A NUREMBERG TOPOGRAPHICAL ARMORIAL GOBLET AND COVER
CIRCA 1688, SIGNED WITH THE MONOGRAM JWS
The cup-shaped bowl engraved by Johann Wolfgang Schmidt with a view of Nuremberg below a starburst with Hebrew characters, above a cut lense issuing an oak branch and fruiting vines, the reverse with the crowned triple coat-of-arms of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg above two lenses and tied berried laurel branch and palm frond, below the inscription oMnIs Vt Vrbs perstet, faC, CIVes atoVe senatVs, PaCe, saLVte, bonIs, CeLse PolarCha, faVe!, numerated below in descending order from right to left, the domed cover engraved with a band of fruiting vines, the stem and finial formed from cushioned hollow knops and baluster sections, the spreading circular foot with a folded rim, engraved with a continuous band of leaves (broken through the stem and restuck)
19 in. (48.2 cm.) high

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The inscription on the rim roughly translates as 'Noble Polarch, ensure that the whole city, citizens and senate continue in peace, safety and wealth'. The inscription on the rim may conceal the year in which this goblet was made; if the capitalised initials are given their value as Roman numerals and added together their sum is 1688, the likely year of execution. The inclusion of a sun-burst panel inscribed with the name of God in Hebrew may indicate the recipient was a rosicrucian or freemason; it is interesting to note that each word of the inscription is numbered below from right to left, recalling how Hebrew is written.

For a similar engraved topographical goblet and cover with a view of Vienna in the Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, Munich, see Erich Meyer-Heiseg, Der Nürembeger Glasschnitt des 17. Jahrhunderts (Nuremberg, 1963), p. 92, no. 149 and illustrated WT149; the same goblet is also illustrated in the catalogue of the Museums' collection by Rainer Rückert, Die Glassammlung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums München (Munich, 1982), Vol. II, p. 144, no. 485, described on pp. 186-187.

For an armorial topographical goblet with a view of Nuremberg, attributed to Hermann Schwinger, see Erich Meyer-Heisig, ibid., no. WT98.