probably Sigmund Dockler German silver-gilt mounted engraved ruby glass ewer

the glass, probably engraved by Paulus Eder, with fruit and flowers below a bird, the hinged cover pricked with a rosette, the underside with MS paper label: 'Kirchbg / N^o. 893,' the interior of the lid with ink inventory number: 'HR - TH / N: 1658'

The Magrave of Baden.
Sold,  Sotheby’s Baden-Baden, Die Sammlung der Markgrafen und Grossherzöge von Baden,  5-21 October 1995,  lot 335

Exh. Cat. Couven-Museum Aachen, 2003, no. 60
István Heller, Zunftordnungen der Goldschmiede im Römisch-Deutschen Reich mit Ungarn und Siebenbürgen vom 15. Jahrhundert bis zur Auflösung der Zünfte um 1860, München, 2007, pp. 55-57
Dr. István Heller and  Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schneider, article published in conjuction with TEFAF Maastricht 2003, Masterpieces of European Goldsmiths’ works 1560-1860, Couven Museum, Aachen, 2003, pp. 16-21, no. 6
D. von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Rubinglas des Ausgehenden 17. und des 18. Jahrunderts, Mainz, 2001, no. 239

In overall good condition. Dents and scratches especially on cover. Clear marks on cover. Nice quality of cut-glass.
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Paulus Eder (circa 1685-1709), was a glass engraver based in Nuremberg. According to Harol Newmann, only eight pieces signed by him are known. For two glass flasks similarly engraved with birds and fruits among foliage, now respectively in  the Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg  and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, see: Erich Meyer-Heisig, Der Nürnberger Glasschnitt des 17 Jahrhunderts, fig. 178 & 183,
The Nuremberg maker's marks on the cover of this jug closely resemble the example reproduced by Rosenberg under number 4283. This number 4283 has in the most up to date work on Nuremberg goldsmiths been combined with Rosenberg 4276 and ascribed to Daniel Sigmund Dockler. Dockler is recorded as the maker of silver-gilt mounts on a gemstone for Duke Johan Christian von Sulzback in 1729. See:Karin Tebbe et al. Nürnberger Golschmiedekunst 1541-1868, Nuremberg, 2007, no. 158