Lot 201
  • 201

Rare ensemble de douze gobelets "aux mois" en argent par Sigmund Wolfgang Preuss, Ohlau (Silésie), vers 1700, celui de juin peut-être par Johann Reinhart, Leipzig, vers 1700

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 EUR
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Description

  • Rare ensemble de douze gobelets "aux mois" en argent par Sigmund Wolfgang Preuss, Ohlau (Silésie), vers 1700, celui de juin peut-être par Johann Reinhart, Leipzig, vers 1700
  • Haut. 9 cm, 1 636 gr. ; 3 1/2 in, 52 oz 12 dwt
chacun gravé d'une allégorie du mois dans un cartouche feuillagé, le nom du mois latinisé gravé au-dessus, l'intérieur doré



each engraved with an allegory of a month in  foliate cartouche below its latinized name, gilt interiors

Provenance

Collection Udo et Mania Bey, Hambourg

Exhibited

Meisterwerke der Goldschmiedekunst, Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Münich, 2004, p. 38-39, n° 18

Literature

Altes Tafelgerät, Sammlung Udo und Mania Bey, 1966, n° 56
Scheffler, 1980, p. 43
Toepfer, 1989, p. 1959
Domdey-Knödler, 1995, p. 70 et 97

Condition

In overall good condition. Gilding partly worn. Legible marks under the bases, the June beaker engraved only twice with maker's mark. Rare set, very nice quality of engraving.
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