Petite chope couverte en argent et vermeil gravée des douze mois par Christoph Ban(t)zer, Augsbourg, vers 1635-1640

le corps gravé de douze médaillons ronds numérotés représentant chacun un mois, sous le corps des initiales SEG et de la date 1739, le couvercle d'une frise représentant les signes du zodiaque



engraved with twelve circular numbered medallions representing the months, signs of the Zodiac at the cover

Collection Ole Olsen, Copenhague
Winkel & Magnussens, Copenhague, 1953, n° 200
Sotheby's Genève, 14 mai 1985, n° 193

Meisterwerke der Goldschmiedekunst, Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Münich, 2004, p. 12-14, n° 3.

Schmitz, 1925, p. 35, n° 154

In overall good condition. Fine quality of engraving. Marks legible under the base and on the cover rim.
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Les représentations des mois sont tirées de gravures de Dietrich Théodore Meyer l'Ancien (1572-1658), de Zürich.