True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha
True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha
A PARCEL-GILT SILVER TALL TANKARD, NORTH GERMAN OR BALTIC, CIRCA 1620
Auction Closed
November 20, 10:09 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A PARCEL-GILT SILVER TALL TANKARD, NORTH GERMAN OR BALTIC, CIRCA 1620
the top of the body engraved with a huntsman and hounds chasing a unicorn and rabbit, the lower body engraved with a boar hunt and a playful monkey betrothal, one with raised baton with date 1620, others with musical instruments, applied with a mid band of cast classical Bacchic processions, the cover and base chased with winged putto heads fruit and strapwork, matching thumbpiece and scroll handle, the finial formed as Eros on a pedestal supported by three hounds, the interior of the cover with a coat of arms, wrigglework borders
apparently unmarked
24 oz 8 dwt
771 g
height 13 3/4 in.
35 cm
A similar tankard by Engelbrecht II Becker, Lubeck, 1622, formerly in the Anselm von Rothschild collection, is at the British Museum WB 128.
Other similar tankards are found in Latvia and Estonia, see Carl Ehrnrooth Silver Treasures from Livonia, Estonia and Courland, for example by Christian Holst, Riga 1612-38, no. 39 p. 83 and Jacob Lange, Reval/Tallin, 1632-1657 no 44. p. 88. Unmarked examples given to Riga and Reval/ Tallin are nos. 40 and 43 pp.8 & 87.