A FINE GERMAN SILVER-GILT AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL CUP AND COVER

MAKER'S MARK OF JÖRG RUEL, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1600

细节

A FINE GERMAN SILVER-GILT AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL CUP AND COVER
Maker's Mark of Jörg Ruel, Nuremberg, circa 1600
The conical cup formed of lozenge-shaped mother-of-pearl panels each applied with silver-gilt mounts, on a stem with three scroll brackets headed by sea-monsters, on a circular foot, the cover similarly decorated and with a finial of a Satyr blowing a pipe, the rim of cover, the neck mount, and the foot etched with strapwork and stylized foliage, the neck marked with town and maker's mark, the cover marked with maker's mark
13 in. (33 cm.) high

来源

Baron Karl von Rothschild (1820-1886), Frankfurt
Alfred de Rothschild, Esq., of Halton
Lionel de Rothschild, Esq., of Exbury House, Southampton, sold at Christie's, London, July 4, 1946, lot 27 ([L] 94-10 to Bacher)
S.J. Phillips

出版

F. Luthmer, Der Schatz des Freiherrn Karl von Rothschild: Meisterwerk alter Goldschmiedekunst, 1883-1885, fig. 49a.

Marc Rosenberg, Die Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, 1925, vol. III, no. 4086q, p. 161.

拍品专文

Jörg Ruel specialized in setting precious materials and natural curiosities in silver-gilt mounts. Rosenberg lists a number of such cabinet pieces by Ruel, most notably a partridge-form cup set with "feathers" of mother-of-pearl, formerly in the Leopold de Rothschild collection, and now in the Gilbert collection (Martin Chapman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver: Recent Acquisitions II, 1991, fig. J). In the Green Vaults, Dresden, there is a mother-of-pearl flask by Ruel with applied silver-gilt jewel-form mounts similar to those on the present cup (see Joachim Menzhausen, The Green Vaults, 1970, pp. 84-85, illus. 51 and 52).