Jürgen Richels Set of six German silver-gilt silver stacking tumbler cups and cover

in sizes,  cover also forming  stand on peg supports, snakeskin ornament, each piece number 3 and later initialled B,  in a later fitted wood case

F. Payer, Zurich

Exh. Cat. Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, 2011, no. 43A

Jürgen Richels, who was named after his father, a dyer, was baptised in Hamburg on 24 October 1641. He was apprenticed in 1653 to Steffen Sömmerings, one of Hamburg’s foremost goldsmiths, but upon the latter’s death in 1658, Richels transferred to the workshop of Hermann Lüders. Richels became a master goldsmith and citizen of Hamburg in 1664. He was sometime Beschaumeister of the Hamburg goldsmiths’ guild and the guild’s master from 1681 to 1698.