Aiguiere-trophee de regate en vermeil serti de chrysoprases par Alexander Schonauer, Hambourg, vers 1912

orné de scènes marines, tritons et autre décors marins, appliquée des armes de la ville de Hambourg au centre et gravée de l'inscription EHRENPREIS. DER. FREIEN. u. HANSESTADT. HAMBURG. FÜR. DIE. REGATTA. AUF. DER. UNTERELBE. 1912.

incorporating fish and marine ornament, centred by the arms of Hamburg and inscribed EHRENPREIS. DER. FREIEN. u. HANSESTADT. HAMBURG. FÜR. DIE. REGATTA. AUF. DER. UNTERELBE. 1912.

very light wear but general condition excellent.
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Alexander Schonauer était un orfèvre allemand de la fin du XIXe - début du XXe siècle aux talent et imagination particulièrement remarquable. Il devint compagnon à Munich en 1889, puis compléta sa formation à Paris, aux Pays-Bas et en Belgique avant de s'installer à Hambourg. L'essentiel de son travail, combinant argent, émaux et autres matériaux, libre interpétation de la Renaissance, fut effectué pour la ville de Hambourg et compose le coeur du trésor de la ville constitué entre 1898 et 1914, Das Neure Ratsilber. Bernard Heitman considère le talent de Schonauer sans égal poru l'Allemagne de l'époque. Une paire d'aiguières réalisées en 1901 et similaires à ce modèle font encore partie du trésor de la ville, voir Bernard Heitman et al. Die Goldschmiede Hamburgs, Hamburg, 1985, vol I, P. 114-116. 

Alexander Schonauer was an imaginative and technically gifted German artist goldsmith of the late 19th early 20th century. After qualifying as a Journeyman in Munich in 1889 he completed his training in Paris, the Netherlands and Belgium before establishing a workshop in Hamburg. His most representative work, combining silver with enamel and other materials, in an original interpretation of the Renaissance, was made for the city government. It forms the heart of the later part of the city treasure, Das Neure Ratsilber, created between 1898 and 1914. Bernard Heitman et al. hold Schonauer's talent in high regard,  considering the result of his association with the city of Hamburg, without equal in Germany at the time. A pair of jugs made in 1901, comparable to the example in this lot are part of the city treasure. See: Bernard Heitman et al. Die Goldschmiede Hamburgs, Hamburg, 1985, vol I, P. 114-116.