AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1690, MAKER'S MARK R (M. ROSENBERG DER GOLDSCHMIEDE MERKZEICHEN, FRANKFURT, 1922, III, NO. 681, UNRECORDED BY SELING).

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A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT DOUBLE BEAKER
AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1690, MAKER'S MARK R (M. ROSENBERG DER GOLDSCHMIEDE MERKZEICHEN, FRANKFURT, 1922, III, no. 681, unrecorded by Seling).
The lower part of each with engraved foliate band beneath lobed oval panels, alternately engraved with inscriptions and scrolling foliage, with gilt moulded rims, marked on bases
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high overall; 27/8 in. (7.5 cm.) diam.
Weight 4 oz. (144 gr.)

Provenance

Sir Julius Wernher, 1st Bt. (1850-1912), Bath House, London, in the Red Room, by whom bequeathed, with a life interest to his widow, Alice, Lady Wernher, subsequently Lady Ludlow (1862-1945), to their son
Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt., G.C.V.O. (1893-1973), Bath House, London, and from 1948, Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, and by descent.

Literature

1913 Bath House Inventory, p. 36, no. 199, in the Red Room, in the 'large glazed case near door - Right Hand Division'.
1914 Wernher Inventory, p. 36, no. 188.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

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Who wants to be of gay mind and all sparkling, drinks, as its name says, a good Klingenberg wine

I praise the old wine as it makes young blood and I strongly believe in the proverb of the drinking friends: old is good

The noble Neckar wine is certainly also not a bad one, what lovely always loves the noble lady

Who loves the health needs me here, he often drinks a good wine and flees from the evil beer

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