APPARENTLY UNMARKED, PROBABLY BALTIC OR POMERANIAN, 17TH CENTURY

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A CONTINENAL PARCEL-GILT SILVER FLAGON
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, PROBABLY BALTIC OR POMERANIAN, 17TH CENTURY
Baluster and on spreading gadrooned foot, the body chased with masks connected by fruiting swags, the elongated neck engraved with a coat-of-arms, with beaded scroll handle and a grotesque mask spout, the hinged cover with pineapple finial
18½ in. (47 cm.) high
76 oz. (2,350 gr.)
The arms are those of Mellin, perhaps for Jürgen Mellin (1633-1713), the son of Bernd Mellin (1608-1690).

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Originally from Mecklenburg, Jürgen Mellin began his military career in Sweden in 1649, serving in different garrisons in Finland and in the Baltic. By 1659 he became a general aide to King Karl Gustav X of Sweden. In 1681 he became Commander-in-Chief of all Swedish troops in Pomerania and in the same year moved his family home from Eastern Pomerania to Damitzow. His ascent continued and by 1688 he was Vice-Governor of Swedish Pomerania and made first a baron, in 1691 and later, in 1697, a count. He married twice, first in Reval to Anna Magdalena (1636-1690) in 1655, and had two sons and secondly, following the death of Anna to E. H. Sophie (1644-1707) who he married in Stettin.

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