A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MINIATURE PINE AND FRUITWOOD TANKARD
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MINIATURE PINE AND FRUITWOOD TANKARD

APPARENTLY UNMARKED, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY

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A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MINIATURE PINE AND FRUITWOOD TANKARD
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
The pinewood base with foliage-pierced mounts, the bombé body built up from fruitwood staves and enclosed by an engraved pierced silver-gilt hoop, with wood handle, the hinged cover applied with a silver-gilt band chased with grotesque masks within scroll cartouches with fruit festoons between, the finial cast as a seated bacchic infant holding a drinking cup, the thumbpiece cast with a circular medallion enclosing a grotesque mask
4¼ in. (11 cm.) high
Provenance
Sir Julius Wernher, 1st Bt. (1850-1912), Bath House, London, in the Red Room, by whom bequeathed, with a life interest to his widow,
Alice, Lady Wernher, subsequently Lady Ludlow (1862-1945), to his son
Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt. G.C.V.O. (1893-1973), Bath House, London and from 1948, Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, and by descent.
The Wernher Collection; Christie's, London, 5 July 2000, lot 40.
Literature
1913 Bath House Inventory, p. 28, no. 149, in the Red Room, in the 'large glazed case near door - Left Hand Division'.
1914 Wernher Inventory, p. 28, no. 141.

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