A MAGNIFICENT GERMAN SILVER EWER AND DISH

MAKER'S MARK OF JOHANN BAPTIST WEINOLD I (WEINET), AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1675

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A MAGNIFICENT GERMAN SILVER EWER AND DISH
Maker's mark of Johann Baptist Weinold I (Weinet), Augsburg, circa 1675
The centre of the exceptionally large dish repoussé and chased in high relief with a scene depicting a Roman hero in a triumphal-chariot with Victory above, accompanying the Sacred flame to the Altar of Mars Pacificator, the flat border repoussé, chased and applied with scrolling foliage, fruit and berries on a matted ground with four figures emblematic of the Continents at intervals - a monarch with scepter and orb for Europe, a Chinese mandarin holding a parrot for Asia, an Indian chief with tobacco pipe and arrows for America and an African potentate holding a lamp for Africa - on later wood support and with later moulded strengthener to the border; the vase-shaped ewer on domed foot repoussé with flowers and foliage and with flat border, the body repoussé, chased and applied with naturalistic flowers and scrolling foliage on matted ground, with auricular scroll silver-gilt handle terminating in leaf above the similarly chased flat cover, marked on ewer and dish
the dish 79 cm. (31¼ in.) long
the ewer 40.2 cm. (15¾ in.) high
The ewer 1,150 gr. (36 oz.)

Provenance

Ole Olsen Collection, sold in four sessions between January 1944 and May 1953 by V. Winkel and Magnussen, Copenhagen

Literature

H. Schmitz, Generaldirektor Ole Olsens Kunstsamlinger, Munich, n.d., nos. 301-2, pl. XLIII.

Lot Essay

A number of similar Augsburg "Schauplatten" without ewers, made between 1647-1684 and of similar size and importance, were exhibited in the Munich exhibition, Silber und Gold, Augsburger Goldschmiedekunst für die Höfe Europas, 23 February - 29 May 1994, nos. 28 - 32.

H. Seling records in Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede 1529-1868, III, Munich, 1980, p. 223, three "Schauplatten" now in Russia by Johann Baptist Weinold I. Two are in the Kremlin Museum in Moscow - the largest (84 cm.) is dated circa 1670 and is also chased with quadriga, the smaller dish (71 cm.), circa 1690, is chased with a Triumph. A third dish (53.5 cm.) dates from circa 1670-1675 and is in the collection of the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

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