A faon-de-Venise polychrome armorial goblet

FIRST THIRD OF THE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE OR SOUTH GERMANY

细节

A faon-de-Venise polychrome armorial goblet
First third of the 16th Century, Venice or South Germany
The flared bowl enamelled in iron-red, ochre, black, white and blue with the arms of Haller vom Hallerstein and Imhoff linked and suspended by ochre scrolling tendrils from a triple gilt line band, the reverse with two Haller crested helmets, on a conical foot with folded rim enriched in gilding and with a gilt band between the bowl and foot (very slight wear to enamels and gilding)
5.3/8 in. (13.5 cm.) high

来源

From the collection of Hans Freiherr von Imhoff (1874-1953).

拍品专文

This goblet was most probably made to celebrate a marriage between the Von Imhoff and Haller families; perhaps the second marriage of Ulrich Haller to Magdalena Im Hoff (daughter of Hans Im Hoff IV), the exact date of which is not known but thought to have taken place early in the 16th Century. During the 15th and 16th Centuries members of the Imhoff family were affluent and influential merchants from Nuremberg, patronising artists such as Titian and Drer, with strong trading connections with Venice. The arms of the Imhoff family appear on a well-known series of Venetian maiolica dishes and an albarello, see T. Hausmann, Majolika, Spanische und Italienische Keramik von 14 bis zum 18 Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1972), no. 234.

The present goblet is the pendant to the example in the Österreichisches Museum fr angewandte Kunst in Vienna (no. F 143) bearing the same arms, see Axel von Saldern, German Enameled Glass, Corning (1965), p. 34, fig. 11. Another example with the arms of Imhoff, Schlauderbach and Reich is in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, see Axel von Saldern, op. cit., p. 34, fig. 10 and for another with the arms of Ulrich Starck von Reckenhof and Katharina Imhoff see Brigitte Klesse and Axel von Saldern, 500 Jahre Glaskunst, Sammlung Biemann, Zurich (1978), p. 308, no. 261. The pendant to this latter example, formerly in the Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum, is illustrated by Robert Schmidt, Das Glas (Berlin, 1912), p. 96, p. 59.