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MARK OF HANS LUDWIG BAUR, ULM, CIRCA 1650
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A GERMAN SILVER-GILT CUP
MARK OF HANS LUDWIG BAUR, ULM, CIRCA 1650
THE OVAL SPREADING FOOT CHASED WITH SHELLS AND WITH DOLPHIN STEM APPLIED WITH THREE SCROLL BRACKETS, THE SHELL-SHAPED BOWL APPLIED WITH DETACHABLE FEMALE FIGURE FINIAL HOLD A BANNER ALOFT, EMBLEMATIC OF VICTORY, THE SIDE OF THE BOWL AND THE BANNER LATER ENGRAVED WITH INSCRIPTIONS, MARKED ON BOWL AND FOOT
16½IN. (42CM.) HIGH
25OZ. (792GR.)
THE INSCRIPTION ON THE BANNER READS, 'DER MAURER ZUNFT ZU SCHORNDORF DEREN OBMANNEN JOHANN JACOB S(CH)REINER DES GERICHTS KERTZENMEISTER JOHAN MICHAEL FIRNING, JOHAN JACOB MAYER.', WHICH TRANSLATED READS 'THE MASTERS OF THE BRICKLAYERS GUILD OF SCHORNDORF, JOHANN JACOB SCHREINER CABINET-MAKER OF THE COURT, MASTER OF THE CANDLEMAKERS JOHAN MICHAEL FIRNING, JOHAN JACOB MAYER.
THE LATER INSCRIPTION READS 'SDER ZEIT OBMANHERR JOHANNES MOSER DES GERICHTS 1750', which translated reads 'The serving Master Johannes Moser of the Court'
MARK OF HANS LUDWIG BAUR, ULM, CIRCA 1650
THE OVAL SPREADING FOOT CHASED WITH SHELLS AND WITH DOLPHIN STEM APPLIED WITH THREE SCROLL BRACKETS, THE SHELL-SHAPED BOWL APPLIED WITH DETACHABLE FEMALE FIGURE FINIAL HOLD A BANNER ALOFT, EMBLEMATIC OF VICTORY, THE SIDE OF THE BOWL AND THE BANNER LATER ENGRAVED WITH INSCRIPTIONS, MARKED ON BOWL AND FOOT
16½IN. (42CM.) HIGH
25OZ. (792GR.)
THE INSCRIPTION ON THE BANNER READS, 'DER MAURER ZUNFT ZU SCHORNDORF DEREN OBMANNEN JOHANN JACOB S(CH)REINER DES GERICHTS KERTZENMEISTER JOHAN MICHAEL FIRNING, JOHAN JACOB MAYER.', WHICH TRANSLATED READS 'THE MASTERS OF THE BRICKLAYERS GUILD OF SCHORNDORF, JOHANN JACOB SCHREINER CABINET-MAKER OF THE COURT, MASTER OF THE CANDLEMAKERS JOHAN MICHAEL FIRNING, JOHAN JACOB MAYER.
THE LATER INSCRIPTION READS 'SDER ZEIT OBMANHERR JOHANNES MOSER DES GERICHTS 1750', which translated reads 'The serving Master Johannes Moser of the Court'
Provenance
From the collection of W.E. Gladstone, (1809-1898) and then by descent
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