Property from a Private Collection
Georg Hinz
Still life with an elaborate silver gilt standing cup, a basket of fruit, and a glass wine jug upon a partly draped table
Lot Closed
December 9, 04:02 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Georg Hinz
Altona 1630/31 - 1688 Hamburg
Still life with an elaborate silver gilt standing cup, a basket of fruit, and a glass wine jug upon a partly draped table
oil on canvas
unframed: 102 x 80.5 cm.; 40⅛ x 31¾ in.
framed: 114.9 x 96 cm.; 45¼ x 37⅞ in.
Rudbeck collection, Edsberg, 1829;
Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 22 November 1973, lot 68, for DM. 19,000;
Anonymous sale, Stockholm, Bukowski, 5-8 November 1975, lot 26;
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Private Collector'), London, Sotheby's, 28 October 1999, lot 66, where acquired by the present owner.
The silver gilt standing cup seen here is typical of Hamburg goldsmith production during this period; the same figure of Bacchus can be seen in a stand for sweetmeats made in Hamburg in circa 1631-33, which is today in The Kremlin Armoury, Moscow.1Much of Hinz's life remains unknown. He was active in Altona, a suburb of Hamburg, and Arnold Houbraken mentions Ernst Stuven as one of his pupils.
We are grateful to Dr Fred G. Meijer for endorsing the attribution to Georg Hinz based on digital images.
1 E. Schliemann, Die Goldschiemde Hamburgs, Hamburg 1985, no. RK 76, reproduced fig. 103.