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MARK OF MICHAEL SCHELLING, BRASSÓ, CIRCA 1640
Details
A FINE HUNGARIAN SILVER-GILT TANKARD
MARK OF MICHAEL SCHELLING, BRASSÓ, CIRCA 1640
Tapering cylindrical on a molded footrim, with dentilated borders, the body chased and repoussé all over with winged putti heads, fruit, grotesque masks and auricular scrolls enclosing cartouches with angels garbed in peasants' clothing and playing musical instruments, one with a viol and two with lutes, all on a matted ground, the double scroll handle with a caryatid above foliage and strapwork, the domed hinged cover with bifurcated scroll thumbpiece and chased and repoussé with band of winged putti heads and bundles of fruit, marked under base, later scratched Brassó, Michael Schwanz, XVII
11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) high; 39 oz. (1,223 gr.)
MARK OF MICHAEL SCHELLING, BRASSÓ, CIRCA 1640
Tapering cylindrical on a molded footrim, with dentilated borders, the body chased and repoussé all over with winged putti heads, fruit, grotesque masks and auricular scrolls enclosing cartouches with angels garbed in peasants' clothing and playing musical instruments, one with a viol and two with lutes, all on a matted ground, the double scroll handle with a caryatid above foliage and strapwork, the domed hinged cover with bifurcated scroll thumbpiece and chased and repoussé with band of winged putti heads and bundles of fruit, marked under base, later scratched Brassó, Michael Schwanz, XVII
11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) high; 39 oz. (1,223 gr.)
Provenance
Purchased in Vienna before 1922 from art dealers Julius and Richard Leitner (Weihburggasse 11)
Literature
Elemér Koszeghy, Marks of Hungarian Goldsmiths from the Middle Ages to 1867, 1936, p. 132, no. 190a
László Mravik, "Sacco di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949, 1998, no. 19978
László Mravik, "Sacco di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949, 1998, no. 19978
Exhibited
Exhibition of Old Cultural Pieces from Transylvania, Museum of Applied Art, Budapest, 1931, no. 60 (incorrectly identified as a work of Michael Schwartz of Brassó)
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