The Pleasure of Objects: The Ian & Carolina Irving Collection

The Pleasure of Objects: The Ian & Carolina Irving Collection

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A German Parcel-Gilt Silver Tulip Cup And Cover, Christian Werckmeister, Nuremberg, Circa 1670

Auction Closed

January 30, 06:14 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

the foot embossed and chased with flowers, the stem modelled as a tulip stem, the bowl, cover and finial formed as tulip flowers, engraved monogram by the marks on the body and cover. marked on base, cup and cover


17 3/4 oz; 552 g

height 16 1/2 in., 42 cm

The mark of Christian Werkmeister (fl. 1661-1686) is recorded on one further tulip cup, now in the Hermitage collection.1

At Werkmeister's wedding in 1662 his wife was punished for falling foul of sumptuary rules by wearing too many jewels and lavish clothes.


Notes

1. E 1624. r3 4261a - Logato, M. N., Nemetskoye khudozhestvennoye serebro v ermitazhe / German Silver from the Hermitage, Nr. Ng 97-98, Abb.

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