MARK OF JOHANNES HENSSEL, HERMANNSTADT (ROMANIA), CIRCA 1610

Details

A Rare Transylvanian parcel-gilt flagon
Mark of Johannes Henssel, Hermannstadt (Romania), circa 1610
Of slightly waisted form on spreading reeded foot, the body set with a band of six Roman coins between bands of engraved strapwork and foliage and a coat-of-arms with the initials 'DBK', with scroll and grotesque mask and figure handle, the domed shaped cover with winged figural thumbpiece and with fluted ball-shaped finial, marked on base with maker's mark only, with later French control marks, the base painted with later inventory numbers 41/219
9½in. (24.3cm.) high
20oz. (634gr.)

Provenance

Dr. Alfred Pringsheim (1850-1941), Munich
Confiscated by the Nazi authorities in 1938
Sold to the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich in 1941
Returned to the main Collecting Centre in 1946
Returned to the heirs of Dr. Alfred Pringsheim in 1953
The Marigny Collection; Christie's Geneva, 6 November 1969, lot 116
With Jacques Kugel.

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr. Lorenz Seelig, Chief Curator of the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, for the information on the Pringsheim collection. He will shortly publish an article on the history of the Pringsheim collection, Die Münchner Sammlung Alfred Pringsheim- Versteigerung, Beschlagnahmung, Restitution, in the Veröffentlichungen der Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluset, Magdeburg, 2005, vol. 3.

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