A NUREMBERG ENGRAVED GOBLET AND A SILVER-GILT AND GILT-METAL-MOUNTED COVER

LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE SILVER-GILT MOUNTS BEARING NUREMBERG TOWN MARK AND MAKER'S MARK CK, THE COVER AND GILT-METAL FINIAL 19TH CENTURY

Details

A NUREMBERG ENGRAVED GOBLET AND A SILVER-GILT AND GILT-METAL-MOUNTED COVER
Late 17th Century, the silver-gilt mounts bearing Nuremberg town mark and maker's mark CK, the cover and gilt-metal finial 19th Century
Engraved with a couple emblematic of Love in flowing drapery and with their right hands clasped standing beneath a laurel wreath held by hands emerging from cloud scrolls, and with David and Jonathan emblematic of Friendship standing holding a goblet decorated with three hearts beneath a bunch of grapes squeezed by two hands emerging from cloud scrolls, with ruined buildings and figures in a river landscape between, the tall knopped and inverted baluster stem divided by mereses, the domed cover with silver-gilt strapwork mounts supporting a gilt-bronze finial in the form of the coat-of-arms of the Imhoff family with helm and crest (replacement foot, central knop to stem a replacement, the bowl slightly crisselled, the cover with replacement glass finial beneath mount and with related cracks)
24 in. (64 cm.) high overall

Provenance

Rothschild inv. no. AR3134.

Lot Essay

The Ernesto Wolf Collection (see B. Klesse-Hans Mayr, op. cit., Vienna, 1987, no. 82) includes a broken cover from a Nuremberg engraved cylindrical beaker surmounted by a similar gilt-bronze finial with the arms of the Imhoff family, an affluent and influential Nuremberg merchant family during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries.

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