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MARK OF ASSMUS SOWKE, HAMBURG, CIRCA 1655, WITH THE ASSAY MASTER'S MARK OF JOHAN JANS (1642-1658)
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A German parcel-gilt tankard
mark of Assmus Sowke, Hamburg, circa 1655, with the assay master's mark of Johan Jans (1642-1658)
Cylindrical on a domed spreading circular foot, the body repoussé, chased and engraved with later portraits of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich, Natalia Kirillovna Narishkin and a nobleman, within foliate scroll cartouches, with hinged domed cover set in the centre with a coin with a figure of a horseman on one side and with old-Russian inscription on the reverse, with scroll handle and fluted thumbpiece, marked under base
2¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high
26 oz. (830 gr.)
mark of Assmus Sowke, Hamburg, circa 1655, with the assay master's mark of Johan Jans (1642-1658)
Cylindrical on a domed spreading circular foot, the body repoussé, chased and engraved with later portraits of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich, Natalia Kirillovna Narishkin and a nobleman, within foliate scroll cartouches, with hinged domed cover set in the centre with a coin with a figure of a horseman on one side and with old-Russian inscription on the reverse, with scroll handle and fluted thumbpiece, marked under base
2¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high
26 oz. (830 gr.)
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