A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER-MOUNTED RUBY GLASS CUP AND COVER

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A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER-MOUNTED RUBY GLASS CUP AND COVER
AUGSBURG, LATE-17TH CENTURY, MAKER'S MARK OF MARX WEINOLD

Of tapering cylindrical form with everted rim, on spreading shaped circular scalloped foot chased with swirling flutes on a matted ground below a dentilated band, rising to a fluted knopped baluster stem below applied openwork scrolls and foliate tendrils, with stiff leaf rim, the domed cover with similar rim and globular finial, marked on cover mount--8 3/8in. (21.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

A ruby-glass baluster tankard with silver-gilt mounts by the same maker is in a private collection and illustrated in Helmut Seling, Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede 1529-1868, Munich, 1980, vol. I, plate XVIII. Weinold is recorded in 1665 as marrying Anna Warnberger and had probably been admitted Master shortly before this date. He subsequently remarried in 1680 and in 1691 and died in 1700. Among his best known works are the Three Smiths Cup in the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum (see Hugh Tait, Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum; II The Silver Plate, London, 1988, no. 54), works in the Kremlin, Moscow and the Hermitage, Leningrad, and the Hahn der Blarer von Wartensee , engraved with the arms of Blarer-Escher (see Alaine Gruber, Weltliches Silver, Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich, 1977, p.178, no.261) and a cup in the Green Vaults, Dresden.